Steve Salazar
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Salazar is a seasoned technology leader and founder with over 18 years delivering integrated software, hardware, and product initiatives. As CTO and founder of Blackbird Studios, he leads cross-disciplinary teams from strategy through shipped products, with a track record of accelerating engineering velocity using GenAI, LLM-powered agentic systems, data transformation, and synthetic data generation. He combines hands-on engineering with design research and business strategy, having established IDEO as a preferred engineering partner and driven complex, high-ambiguity projects to execution. His leadership spans consumer IoT, streaming platforms, and large-scale digital systems, including CTO roles at Santa Clara County Housing Authority and Gimme Radio, where he delivered scalable, reliable platforms under demanding constraints. Based in San Francisco, he champions human-centered product strategy, rapid technical feasibility assessments, and a pro-team culture that aligns ambitious design goals with practical roadmaps. Notably, he has shipped real-world, AI-powered outcomes for multiple GenAI products well ahead of market, reflecting a rare blend of strategic vision and hands-on execution.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Bachelor of Science (B.S.) at University of Washington
Spanish
Github Skills (86)
http10
web-development10
javascript10
stream10
playback10
html10
css10
player10
file-type10
fundamentals9
react-component9
hls-stream9
video-streaming9
streaming9
ecmascript69
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
eagsalazar/ConnectblueSerial
Aug 2013 - Nov 2014
Contributions:27 commits in 1 year 2 months
eagsalazar/sf2_to_js
May 2013 - May 2013
Gem and scripts to convert sf2 sound font files to js consumable by https://github.com/eagsalazar/midi.js
Contributions:8 commits in 1 day
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