Craig Box

Kubernetes & Cloud Native Leader | DevRel, GTM & Open Source Strategy | Ex-Google, CNCF Board

GoogleCex-Cloud Sherpasex-Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)

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I help bridge the gap between complex technology and the people who build, buy, or operate

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For over a decade I've been at the centre of the Cloud Native movement — at Google Cloud before Kubernetes was public, helping take a scrappy internal vision and scale it into a global standard. That means I've operated across the full stack of what it takes to make technology succeed in the market: from community building and open source governance, to enterprise GTM, sales alignment, and team — Strategy & GTM: As Global Head of Go-to-Market and then Developer Relations Tech Lead at Google, I was responsible for the commercial and community success of Kubernetes, Istio, and GKE across enterprise accounts and global developer — Open Source Governance: Elected to the CNCF Governing Board; drove the donation of both Istio and Kubescape to the CNCF. Member of the Istio Steering — Community & Advocacy: Created, produced, and hosted the Kubernetes Podcast from Google — 5M+ downloads, the industry's #1 audio channel for cloud native practitioners. Keynoted at KubeCon and speaker across six — Leadership: VP and Senior Director roles at ARMO and io, leading distributed teams, shaping open source/commercial strategy, and aligning community programs with enterprise revenue Based in Hamilton, New Zealand — available for remote-first or NZ-based roles across DevRel, open source strategy, GTM, and engineering leadership.