David Szabo is a technology leader with 20+ years of hands-on engineering and go-to-market experience who currently heads Cortex Evangelism at Palo Alto Networks, focused on bridging developer, customer and sales communities for security products. He has repeatedly built developer and enablement programs from the ground up—driving Cortex from $100M to $800M ARR, creating high-engagement “edutainment” enablement that generated $25M+ in new ARR, and launching public-facing content like a SOC-focused YouTube series. His background spans startups (founder and VP roles at encryption and ML startups), strategic alliances at Microsoft, and direct product marketing and developer relations, giving him rare fluency across product, sales, and engineering. Based in San Francisco, he’s known for turning technical depth into compelling stories and partner ecosystems, and for scaling developer adoption through creative, measurable programs.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Unfinished Bachelor's Computer Science, Unfinished Bachelor's Computer Science at Gabor Denes Technical University
Unfinished Bachelor's Mathematics, Unfinished Bachelor's Mathematics at University of Szeged
Unfinished Bachelor's Economics, Unfinished Bachelor's Economics at Budapest School of Economics
A simple iOS application that demonstrates how the end-to-end encryption works. The application uses firebase as a backend service for authentication and chat messaging.
Contributions:25 commits, 3 PRs, 14 pushes in 4 months
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David Szabo - Head Of Cortex Evangelism Palo Alto Networks