Craig Salzsieder
Senior Director Of Engineering, Data Platform
Bozeman, Montana, United States
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Top SchoolCraig Salzsieder is a results-driven AI/ML technology leader and Senior Director of Engineering for Data Platform with a decade of experience building and scaling production ML platforms and modern data architectures. He has repeatedly delivered measurable business impact—driving revenue-generating models (churn, personalization, dynamic pricing), modernizing a decade-old warehouse into 150+ daily pipelines, and improving DORA metrics to elite levels. Craig combines strategic vision with hands-on engineering, having led monorepo and CI/CD transformations that cut cycle times and boosted deployment frequency tenfold. He’s skilled at growing teams through nearshoring and mentoring engineers to reliability targets (99.9%) while reducing data latency from days to hours. Based in Bozeman, Montana, he pairs enterprise-scale delivery with a digital-nomad consulting background that included operating while traveling to 27 countries—an unusual mix that informs pragmatic, globally minded team building. Currently focused on agentic multi-agent AI systems, he blends MLOps rigor with innovation to move advanced analytics into production.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Program In Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning, Postgraduate Program In Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning at The University of Texas at AustinMaster's Degree Information Tech - Web and Mobile Computing, Master's Degree Information Tech - Web and Mobile Computing at University of Colorado DenverBachelor's Degree Finance Minor in Economics, Bachelor's Degree Finance Minor in Economics at University of Wyoming
Github Skills (13)
java5
visual-studio-extension2
raml2
distributed-systems2
scaffold2
oas1
asp-net1
swagger1
visual-studio1
asp-net-core1
rest1
dotnet1
openapi1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
csalzsieder/UserDirectory
Sep 2019 - Jan 2025
Contributions:4 PRs, 37 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 4 months
crmorgan/hotel-management-system
Mar 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:29 commits, 15 PRs, 21 pushes in 2 months
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