Alex Salgado
Senior Developer Advocate - LATAM
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Top SchoolAlex Salgado is a Senior Developer Advocate based in Rio de Janeiro who blends 20+ years in software development with 11 years of focused experience enabling developer communities across LATAM at Elastic. He helps teams unlock search, observability and vector-based workflows—speaking and writing about topics from ChatGPT+Elasticsearch to robotics and sensor ingestion—while maintaining a hands-on research role building autonomous boats and computer vision systems. A former professor and startup founder, he bridges academia, industry and community by teaching cloud and ML topics, mentoring faculty, and organizing meetups across Brazil and neighboring countries. His technical breadth spans ROS, NVIDIA embedded platforms, OpenCV, AWS RoboMaker, Python and full-stack web development, reflecting a career that moves fluidly between product delivery and research. Uncommonly for an advocate, he pairs developer outreach with active PhD work in computer vision and a background in mindfulness and yoga instruction, bringing an unusually holistic perspective to developer productivity and wellbeing.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Data Processing Technician, Information Technology, Data Processing Technician, Information Technology at Escola Técnica Pandiá CalógerasTechnology Entrepreneurship Part 2Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Universidade Federal FluminenseYoga and Meditation Teacher, Health and Wellness, General, Yoga and Meditation Teacher, Health and Wellness, General at MAPADEVA InstituteStartup Engineering, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, 95.7%, Startup Engineering, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, 95.7% at Stanford University
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (84)
python10
elasticsearch10
chatgpt10
ai10
vector10
elastic10
langchain10
openai10
que10
devrel9
projeto9
genai9
notification8
multipart8
background-service7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
salgado/cscw-aula-git-manha
Oct 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:17 commits, 6 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year 11 months
reactsobreaula
cscw-class/TrabalhoAV1
Sep 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:56 PRs, 102 pushes, 9 branches in 2 months
trabalhojavascriptjavaav1cscw
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