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David Crawshaw

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David Crawshaw
CEO & Co-Founder of
exe.dev (2011)
About

David Crawshaw is Founder and CEO at exe.dev, a next-generation cloud infrastructure platform built for developers. He co-founded the company with Josh Bleecher Snyder to reimagine cloud computing with better primitives and developer experience.

Before founding

David was CTO and co-founder of Tailscale, a secure networking company, and previously worked as a Staff Software Engineer at Google. He holds a BA in Mathematics and History from the University of Sydney and specialized in petabyte-scale logs processing, TCP/IP networking for Fuchsia, and ported Go to iOS.

Founder Insights

David is based in Berkeley, California and has made significant open-source contributions to Go, WireGuard, and Tailscale. He has deep expertise in low-level systems and networking work.

Experience

exe.dev raised a Series A totaling 35M in funding from Amplify, CRV, and HeavyBit to build development-focused cloud infrastructure. The platform features persistent VMs with HTTPS by default, global load balancing, and an integrated AI coding agent.

Scale & Impact

exe.dev is building its own infrastructure in data centers rather than on existing clouds to get primitives right. The platform includes features like copy-on-write VMs, private-by-default servers, and simple flat-rate pricing for developers.

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David Crawshaw

exe.dev
Founder & CEO
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David Crawshaw

Company(s)

exe.dev

Industry

SaaS

Stage/Funding

Series A • $35M

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About

David Crawshaw is Founder and CEO at exe.dev, a next-generation cloud infrastructure platform built for developers. He co-founded the company with Josh Bleecher Snyder to reimagine cloud computing with better primitives and developer experience.

Before founding

David was CTO and co-founder of Tailscale, a secure networking company, and previously worked as a Staff Software Engineer at Google. He holds a BA in Mathematics and History from the University of Sydney and specialized in petabyte-scale logs processing, TCP/IP networking for Fuchsia, and ported Go to iOS.

Founder Insights

David is based in Berkeley, California and has made significant open-source contributions to Go, WireGuard, and Tailscale. He has deep expertise in low-level systems and networking work.

Experience

exe.dev raised a Series A totaling 35M in funding from Amplify, CRV, and HeavyBit to build development-focused cloud infrastructure. The platform features persistent VMs with HTTPS by default, global load balancing, and an integrated AI coding agent.

Scale & Impact

exe.dev is building its own infrastructure in data centers rather than on existing clouds to get primitives right. The platform includes features like copy-on-write VMs, private-by-default servers, and simple flat-rate pricing for developers.

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