Cray Inc. announced the company has named Ryan Waite senior vice president of products. With more than 20 years of experience in big data, supercomputing and software at Amazon Web Services and Microsoft, Waite will be responsible for leading Cray's products division. Prior to joining Cray, Waite served as director of data services at Amazon Web Services where he was responsible for all aspects of its five big data services, including product management, engineering and operations.

While at Amazon Web Services, Waite directed the Amazon Kinesis, AWS Fraud Detection, AWS Data Warehouse, AWS Metering and Tag Metadata teams.