Chris Carter
Product Lead at NetApp Instaclustr
Canberra, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Carter is a Product Lead with 11 years of cross-disciplinary experience blending product management, software engineering and data science in B2B SaaS and industrial R&D. Based in Canberra, he now drives a PLG motion at NetApp Instaclustr and manages a team of product managers while shaping developer-focused product strategies. His background as a software engineering lead and senior data scientist—plus a manufacturing engineering degree from ANU and a Udacity nanodegree in data science—gives him a rare fluency in translating ML models and analytics into production product features. Prior roles at Mars and Ford show a consistent track record of operational impact, from multi-million-dollar capital projects and Six Sigma savings to deploying ML for formulation and supply-chain optimization. He is especially skilled at bridging acquisition and integration strategy with hands-on delivery, ensuring products scale technically and commercially. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic connector who turns complex engineering and analytics capabilities into clear value for developers and enterprise customers.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityNano degree Data science, Nano degree Data science at Udacity
Github Skills (55)
python10
mqtt10
neopixel10
iot10
raspberry-pi10
assembly9
keyboard9
asyncio9
internet-of-things9
wireless9
bluetooth9
home-assistant9
home-automation9
wifi9
esp328
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
chrismelba/miryoku_zmk
Oct 2022 - Aug 2025
Miryoku is an ergonomic, minimal, orthogonal, and universal keyboard layout. Miryoku ZMK is the Miryoku implementation for ZMK.
Contributions:6 PRs, 32 pushes in 2 years 10 months
orthogonallayoutzmkergonomickeyboard
chrismelba/lightclockwifiv2
Jul 2015 - Apr 2020
Code to run a neopixel strip into a pretty clock
Contributions:1 release, 100 commits, 1 PR in 4 years 10 months
neopixel
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