Founder Profile
David Carney
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is David Carney?
David Carney is a founder of Tailscale, which was founded in 2019 with Avery Pennarun, David Crawshaw and Brad Fitzpatrick.
- Company founded
- Tailscale
- Founded
- 2019
- Co-founders
- Avery Pennarun, David Crawshaw and Brad Fitzpatrick
Background
Software engineer and tech entrepreneur.
Founding Story
David Carney co-founded Tailscale in 2019. Serving as the absolutely critical initial backend architect, he helped design the highly robust, incredibly scalable control plane that allows millions of distributed devices to instantly discover and connect to each other securely without a centralized bottleneck. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).
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