Craig Thompson

GitHub & Azure DevOps Cyber Resilience | The Security and AI Operations Company

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

About

Craig Thompson is the GTM Tech Lead for DevOps Resilience at Rubrik. As DevOps environments face escalating threats alongside the rise of AI-generated code, Craig is leading the rollout of Rubrik's enterprise-grade protection, empowering customers to strengthen resilience, improve compliance, and unlock Agentic AI capabilities.

Experience

  • GTM Lead - Azure DevOps & GitHub Cyber Resilience at Rubrik
    Feb 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos

    Azure DevOps, GitHub, GitLab is becoming a board-level risk as it contains critical source code, IaC, pipelines, and deployment automation—the ability to build and run the business. And protecting DevOps applications is not only to strengthen cyber resilience, but to provide a foundation, unlocking Agentic AI capabilities. Rubrik, a leader in cyber resilience providing data security, ransomware protection, and recovery across enterprise, cloud, and SaaS environments, this protection is integrated into Rubrik Security Cloud, where customers have complete cyber resilience by securing, monitoring, and recovering data, identities, and workloads across clouds, providing end-to-end protection.

  • Head of Growth (Acquired by Rubrik (NYSE: RBRK)) at Backrightup (Acquired by Rubrik, Inc)
    Aug 2023 - Present · 3 yrs

    Backrightup is the leading automated Azure DevOps and GitHub data protection solution for the world's largest, industry-leading, and most regulated companies. Laser-focused on its mission; protecting organizations' most critical data (source code and IP). Backrightup provides comprehensive protection for its Azure DevOps and GitHub customers, and being an industry leader in this space allowed Backrightup to prioritize individual customers needs, over responding to competition.

  • Strategic Advisor at Kodez
    Apr 2023 - Nov 2023 · 8 mos

    DevSecOps, Identity and Access Management (IdAM), Data and AI. Working with the founder and principal consultant on product development and GTM strategies for DevSecOps, Identity and Access Management (IdAM), Data and AI. Focusing on Kodez’s under-the-radar strength, its highly skilled AI/ML and Software Engineers and their resulting strong referenceability with key partners (such as OKTA, HashiCorp, and Microsoft) and major customers (including SEEK, MYOB, Coles, Kmart, AGL, WebJet, Kogan, and JBHiFi).

  • Atturra (2 yrs 1 mo)
    • Strategic Alliance Lead
      Jan 2021 - 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      Atturra (ASX: ATA) is one of Australia's leading advisory and IT solutions providers, focused on providing end-to-end transformation services to its clients. Atturra goes to market directly and through advisory and consulting, business applications, cloud services, data and integration, and managed services. Atturra are proud to have key strategic partners in place such as Microsoft, KPMG, Accenture, IBM, OutSystems, Boomi, OpenText, Databricks, Snowflake, Smartsheet, and TechnologyOne. Have won and continue to win multiple awards for Partner of the Year and Platinum Partner status.

    • Alliance Manager - Microsoft
      Jan 2021 - Jul 2021 · 7 mos

      In readiness for Atturra IPO on the ASX, my role as Microsoft Partner Development & SI Manager was focused on strengthening the relationship between Microsoft and Atturra, ensuring alignment to the strategic objectives, customer priorities, and partner targets.

  • Senior Manager, Business Development at Elcom
    2019 - 2021 · 2 yrs

    A Microsoft Partner developing software focussing on Digital Workplace and EdTech. Some clients include; Berkshire Hathaway, Greater Bank, Heritage Bank, Bendigo Bank, CS Energy, Cabrini Healthcare, Northcott, Benevolent Society, Fairfax Media, UTS, FortyWinks, Hewlitt Packard, Shore, WWF, HYUNDAI, Target, KIA, Volkswagon, Mecca, AUSTRADE, The Audit Office, Fair Work Ombudsman.