David Salgado
Product Director. Platform AI
Miami, Florida, Spain
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolDavid Salgado is a product leader with 11 years of experience building developer platforms and AI-enabled products, currently directing Platform AI at Factorial. He has led platform and developer experience transformations at Shopify, FedEx, AWS, and Unity—turning prototypes into worldwide GA products and creating APIs and DX metrics that measurably improved reliability and time-to-market. His background spans developer tools, cloud services, multiplayer frameworks, and DevSecOps, blending technical depth from early engineering and evangelism roles at Microsoft with strategic product leadership. Known for focusing on the “messy middle” where products succeed or fail, he combines GTM savvy with hands-on product and API design to reduce breakages and improve developer velocity. Based between Miami and Spain, he brings a pragmatic, people-first approach (and a fondness for peanuts) to scaling platforms that make complex developer experiences feel simple.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Master's degree Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at University of DeustoUOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
English, Basque, Spanish
Github Skills (29)
dotnet10
azure-sql10
azure-sql-server10
sql-server10
sql10
dotnet-core10
azure-synapse10
azure10
csharp10
microsoft9
unity3d8
transport8
snacks7
multiplayer6
colyseus5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
davidsalgado/BrainDump
Sep 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 18 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 8 months
dotfilesshellpythonbash
davidsalgado/NodeSQLDemo
Mar 2017 - Nov 2019
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.