Founder Profile
David Crawshaw
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is David Crawshaw?
David Crawshaw is a founder of Tailscale, which was founded in 2019 with Avery Pennarun, David Carney and Brad Fitzpatrick.
- Company founded
- Tailscale
- Founded
- 2019
- Co-founders
- Avery Pennarun, David Carney and Brad Fitzpatrick
Background
Former Google software engineer on the Go team; long-time Go and SQLite enthusiast.
Founding Story
David Crawshaw co-founded Tailscale in 2019 and served as its chief technology officer, building much of the early coordination server and client in Go. He previously worked at Google, including on the Go programming language. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).
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