David Szabo
Head Of Cortex Evangelism Palo Alto Networks
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid 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 UniversityUnfinished Bachelor's Mathematics, Unfinished Bachelor's Mathematics at University of SzegedUnfinished Bachelor's Economics, Unfinished Bachelor's Economics at Budapest School of Economics
Github Skills (40)
firebase-cloud-messaging10
ios-application10
firebase-authentication9
authentication9
end-to-end-encryption9
cryptography9
encryption9
backend9
firebase9
android-application9
firestore8
android8
ios8
hipaa6
twilio6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
VirgilSecurity/demo-firebase-ios
May 2018 - Oct 2018
[DEPRECATED] See https://github.com/VirgilSecurity/demo-e3kit-ios and https://github.com/VirgilSecurity/virgil-e3kit-firebase-func for up-to-date code. -- 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
authenticationbackendend-to-end-encryptionfirebaseios
davidszabo26/ZeroKit-Realm-encrypted-tasks
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 35 pushes in 4 days
deploymentarchitecturalrealmencryptionplus
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