David Hayes is a seasoned product leader and founder with 15+ years building product organizations and scaling SaaS companies from early-stage to IPO-ready growth. He led product at PagerDuty from its infancy and rebuilt product at Sentry, then founded Demo Gorilla to solve demo engagement—now exploring a fresh approach to live software demos. Currently VP of Products at FusionAuth after roles at HumanSignal and earlier product/engineering hands-on experience, he blends deep technical roots (C, Java, SharePoint-era engineering) with GTM and partnership acumen. Known for hiring and scaling teams, driving 200x revenue growth at PagerDuty, and closing strategic integrations with top tech firms, he pairs strategic vision with operator instincts. Based in Portland, he’s equally interested in customer-facing discovery—asking sales engineers and CSMs how demos actually work in the field. His background in mathematics from University of Waterloo underpins a data-informed approach to product decisions.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor degree Mathematics, Bachelor degree Mathematics at University of Waterloo
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