Alejandro Salazar
Founder, CEO & CTO at Stealth Startup
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlejandro Salazar is a seasoned software leader and founder with over a decade of experience building scalable, maintainable web and distributed systems from Mountain View. As Founder, CEO & CTO of a stealth startup and former Staff Software Engineer at Intuit, he combines hands-on coding with people leadership, routinely guiding teams of 6–8 while contributing code and rigorous PR reviews. His background spans LAMP, RESTful architectures, Java/J2EE, cloud-native services with Docker and AWS, and messaging/observability stacks like RabbitMQ, ProtoBuffers, InfluxDB and Grafana. He has led migrations from legacy monoliths to modern frontend/REST backends and has experience operating multi-threaded services across VPN nodes and distributed environments. Alejandro’s engineering philosophy emphasizes clean, readable code, scalability, and quality-first development, and he brings a gamer’s ambition—aiming to contribute to major videogame titles—alongside his enterprise systems expertise. A lifelong tinkerer, he’s explored Go, Terraform, Kubernetes and ML tooling on the side, signaling a continual push toward infrastructure and automation maturity.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Tecnológico de Monterrey
Spanish
Stackoverflow
228reputation
93kreached
15answers
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Github Skills (13)
substring6
json6
mysqli6
php6
javascript6
prepared-statements6
regex6
angular6
if-statement6
mysql6
discord-bot5
discord4
golang2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
alphazygma/Combinatorics
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:3 releases, 19 commits, 18 pushes in 12 days
alphazygma/intuit-craft-exercise
Aug 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
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