Craig Wattrus
Founding Applied Researcher at Obvious
Belmont, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolCraig Wattrus is a product design and applied research leader with 13 years of experience building cross-functional teams and shipping design-driven products across healthcare, fintech, retail, and B2B markets. Currently a Founding Applied Researcher at Obvious, he blends hands-on coding with agent orchestration and whiteboard-driven strategy to turn research into production. He has a track record of scaling design organizations and launching GenAI tooling—from MakerOS for local manufacturers to R&D at Crafty that boosted operational efficiency and self-serve capabilities. Previously he led developer experience design at PayPal/Braintree and drove revenue-focused experimentation at Foxtrot, where his work contributed to a multi-million dollar uplift. Based in Belmont, MA, Craig pairs entrepreneurial instincts from founding Maatskappy with practical systems thinking rooted in a Computer Science background.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of Johannesburg 
English, Afrikaans
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
chrome-extension10
flask-application10
webextension10
fingerprinting10
badger10
browser-extension9
python8
firefox8
privacy8
browser8
chrome8
javascript8
highlighting7
journalism7
usability6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
TEDxCT/tedx_web
Dec 2014 - Nov 2016
Contributions:311 commits, 19 PRs, 234 pushes in 1 year 11 months
cmsmeteormeteor-frameworktedxjavascript
cwattrus/Touchy
Jan 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:43 pushes in 1 year
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