Derek Salama
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolDerek Salama is a product-focused AI/ML leader with 13 years of experience building infrastructure and data-driven products for companies from Google to Anthropic. He has repeatedly shipped mission-critical systems—launching personalization and ad-ranking features at Google, building experimentation and marketplace optimization at Lyft, and scaling enterprise feature-store products at Tecton while partnering with customers like Atlassian and Stripe. Known for connecting engineering, product, sales, and services, he has led teams through hypergrowth, hired and mentored product managers, and owned strategic partnerships across the data and cloud ecosystem. Currently at Anthropic after a product-staff role at OpenAI, Derek combines deep technical grounding (BA in Computer Science) with practical experience taking AI products from early design partnerships to billions in revenue. An oft-overlooked strength is his track record of improving developer and infra UX—launching internal platforms and observability tools that let organizations reliably run ML in production.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at Dartmouth College
Latin
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Github Skills (22)
annotations4
data-cleaning4
outlier-detection4
natural-language-processing3
client-library3
computer-vision3
structured-data3
data-quality3
identity3
image-classification3
data-science3
data-validation3
machine-learning3
text-classification3
java2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dereksalama/AutoVol
Feb 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:54 commits in 3 months
googlesamples/identity-toolkit-python
Jan 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:3 PRs, 1 push, 1 comment in 6 months
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