Summary
David Salazar is a Senior Software Engineer based in Austin with eight years of experience building data-driven systems and full-stack applications. He has driven impactful projects across startups and enterprise teams—most recently architecting CDC pipelines, Snowflake cost-tracking dashboards, and a Git-based deprecation scanner that integrated with PRs to reduce technical debt and save substantial cloud spend. Comfortable across Python, Airflow, Snowflake, Kafka, and modern front-end stacks, he pairs data engineering rigor with hands-on UI/UX experience from earlier full‑stack and freelance work. He also founded a financial planning firm, blending regulatory discipline and product design—an uncommon mix that informs his pragmatic, cost-aware engineering approach.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Finance Management, Master of Science (MSc), Finance Management at Durham University Business School
Bachelor's degree, Accounting, Bachelor's degree, Accounting at Lipscomb University
English, Spanish