Jose Palafox
Strategic Field AI GTM Specialist
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJose Palafox is a strategic go-to-market and product leader with 10 years of experience at the intersection of developer platforms, security, and enterprise sales, currently shaping Field AI GTM at GitHub from San Francisco. He has progressed through technical and commercial leadership roles—from Senior Software Engineering Manager at Intel to director-level business development and application security leadership at GitHub—bringing a rare blend of engineering empathy and market-facing execution. An entrepreneur at heart who likes to build things and work with people, he consistently translates complex technical capabilities into pragmatic commercial programs that drive adoption. His background in philosophy and political science underpins a thoughtful, systems-oriented approach to strategy and stakeholder alignment.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts Political Science, Associate of Arts Political Science at Sierra CollegeBachelor of Arts Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts Philosophy at Reed College
Github Skills (110)
gradle-plugin10
resharper10
plsql10
continuous-testing10
continuous-integration10
lint10
apex10
health10
static-analysis9
swift9
detekt9
codeql9
linter9
code-analysis9
operator9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
josepalafox/code-scanning-javascript-demo
Jul 2022 - Nov 2022
GitHub Code Scanning Javascript Tutorial
Contributions:2 pushes in 4 months
code-scanningjavascriptjavascript-tutorialscanning
josepalafox/markdown-portfolio
Aug 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:3 PRs, 8 pushes, 7 branches in 1 day
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