# Raw Engineering

> Raw Engineering is a San Francisco software products-and-services firm founded in 2007 that builds custom mobile apps, websites, SaaS products and cloud infrastructure for Fortune 500 enterprises, sports teams and startups. Best known as the lab that incubated and spun out the headless CMS pioneer Contentstack and the enterprise mobile platform Built.io (acquired by Software AG in 2018), the company today runs five centers of excellence and powers personalized Digital Fan Experience platforms for clients including the Sacramento Kings, Miami Heat and the NBA.

- **Founded:** 2007
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Neha Sampat (Co-Founder & Chairperson), Nishant Patel (Co-Founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** ~98 employees (51-200 range)
- **Products:** Digital Fan Experience Platform (DfanX), SaaS & Mobile Product Engineering, Headless CMS Strategy & Managed Services, DevOps, CloudOps & Site Reliability Engineering
- **Notable:** Pioneered the headless CMS category and built Contentstack, now an industry-leading composable content platform., Built award-winning enterprise mobile platform Built.io, acquired by Software AG in 2018., Bootstrapped with no outside funding for more than a decade.

## Products & services

- **Digital Fan Experience Platform (DfanX)** — A personalized, real-time mobile and web platform for sports and entertainment brands that delivers game info, rewards, food ordering, ticketing and loyalty across a 365-day fan relationship.
- **SaaS & Mobile Product Engineering** — End-to-end product strategy, architecture and development for custom mobile apps, websites and SaaS products across iOS, Android, Java, .NET, PHP and Ruby on Rails.
- **Headless CMS Strategy & Managed Services** — Strategy, implementation and managed services around headless CMS and composable architectures, drawing on the team that built Contentstack.
- **DevOps, CloudOps & Site Reliability Engineering** — Cloud strategy, migration, multi-cloud management, CI/CD, infrastructure as code and 24x7 network operations / SRE.

## Achievements

- Pioneered the headless CMS category and built Contentstack, now an industry-leading composable content platform.
- Built award-winning enterprise mobile platform Built.io, acquired by Software AG in 2018.
- Bootstrapped with no outside funding for more than a decade.
- Powers Digital Fan Experience apps for major NBA franchises including the Sacramento Kings and Miami Heat.
- Grew to five centers of excellence serving IT, Finance, Sports & Entertainment and Retail.

## Latest updates

- **2020-10** — Raw Engineering hired former Miami HEAT talent to drive continued innovation of its Digital Fan Experience platform.
- **2019-01** — Launched Digital Fan Experience Platform 2.0 and supported the spin-out of Contentstack.
- **2018-09** — Built.io acquired by Software AG.

## Links

- Website: https://www.raweng.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/raw-engineering
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/raweng
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/raw.engineering/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rawengineering/

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