Summary
Enrique Salazar is a people-first engineering manager with over 20 years of experience who combines deep infrastructure and operations roots with modern software leadership to build reliable, scalable systems and high-performing teams. He has led distributed organizations through hyper-growth and complex rewrites at companies like Getir and Hygraph, improving performance, delivery predictability, and retention by coaching leaders, introducing agile practices, and aligning engineering with product strategy. Comfortable both mentoring and diving into code, he has hands-on experience across full-stack development, cloud migrations, CI/CD, and multi-cloud infrastructure, which informs pragmatic technical decisions. Known for creating psychological safety and clear career paths, he consistently turns ambiguous, fast-paced challenges into focused outcomes. Currently based in the Netherlands, he’s deepening his ML/AI expertise via a Master’s in AI to bring future-facing capabilities into product and team strategy. An uncommon strength is his early-career background running national-scale infrastructure and emergency-response data projects, giving him operational rigor under pressure.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Specialisation Information Technology, Specialisation Information Technology at Universidad del Norte
Bachellor in Engineering Systems Engineering, Bachellor in Engineering Systems Engineering at Fundación Universitaria San Martín
Spanish, English, Dutch