Craig Raw
Founder at Endeavor
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolCraig Raw is a founder and seasoned technology leader with 11 years of engineering experience and a long career building and scaling digital products from Cape Town. As founder of BrandsEye and former CTO of Quirk, he blends entrepreneurial instinct with deep technical grounding from an electrical and communications engineering background. He contributes to open-source Bitcoin tooling, adding hardware wallet integrations and improved PSBT handling to the well-regarded Sparrow Wallet project, reflecting a focus on security and privacy. Active with Endeavor, he mentors high-impact entrepreneurs across emerging markets, pairing hands-on product work with ecosystem-building. Colleagues know him for translating nuanced technical constraints into practical, auditable solutions and for bringing hardware-software integration experience to consumer-focused finance products.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BSc.Eng.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Honours, Bachelor of Engineering (BSc.Eng.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Honours at University of KwaZulu-Natal
Github Skills (8)
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javafx8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
sparrowwallet/sparrow
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
Desktop Bitcoin Wallet focused on security and privacy. Free and open source.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:57 releases, 6 reviews, 1368 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Craig's commits focused on adding and improving the functionality of a desktop Bitcoin wallet. They implemented the ability to save PSBTs in binary format by default and added options for exporting them as base64 text files. Furthermore, they added the capability to integrate with hardware wallets, specifically by allowing users to toggle the passphrase feature on or off for Trezor One devices. The user also made contributions to the transaction and address display within the wallet.
privacysecuritywalletfocusedcryptocurrency
sparrowwallet/nightjar
Aug 2021 - Feb 2023
Whirlpool client single module
Contributions:35 commits, 2 PRs, 36 pushes in 1 year 7 months
javascripttypescriptwhirlpool
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