Rick Crawford
Field CTO at Postman
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRick Crawford is a Field CTO and seasoned technology leader with 14 years of documented experience delivering complex engineering and go-to-market solutions for large enterprises. He has a deep background in search, web performance, and systems architecture—skills honed from founding an autocomplete startup (Typeahead) and leading retail engineering and customer programs at Google and Walmart. At Google he progressed from Principal Architect to Head of Customer Engineering for Retail, and most recently served in business development at CapitalG before joining Postman to drive API platform adoption. Rick blends hands-on engineering (Golang and web performance enthusiasm) with strategic customer-facing leadership, translating technical constraints into scalable product outcomes. He’s comfortable operating at the intersection of product, sales, and engineering, having led major re-architectures of ecommerce platforms and checkout experiences. Based in San Francisco with a BS in Electrical Engineering from UC Davis, he often bridges enterprise needs with pragmatic, performance-first technical solutions.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical Engineering, BS Electrical Engineering at University of California, Davis
Github Skills (32)
restful-api9
swagger9
openapi9
rest-api9
collections8
grpc8
go8
proxy8
amazon-echo8
waf8
amazon7
grpc-gateway7
devops7
rate-limiting7
http7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
soapbucket/sbproxy
Apr 2026 - Jul 2026
Open source Enterprise AI Gateway for API, MCP and agent, and AI model traffic. One Apache-2.0 binary: 72 native providers behind an OpenAI-compatible API, or serve vLLM and llama.cpp on your own GPUs. Keys, budgets, guardrails, semantic cache, WAF.
Contributions:104 PRs, 349 pushes, 504 branches in 3 months
aiopenaiwafai-gatewayanthropic
rickcrawford/gcp
Nov 2017 - Dec 2017
GCP Examples for Autocomplete
Contributions:29 commits, 1 comment in 10 days
autocompletegcp
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