Phil Salesses
Founder & CEO at Move AI
Alexandria, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolPhil Salesses is a founder and product-driven CEO with 14 years of experience building startups, developer tools, and consumer hardware-software products, currently leading Move AI after an S16 Y Combinator stint and an MIT Media Lab background. He blends hands-on engineering and design instincts—having built MVPs, APIs, and ETL pipelines—with product leadership across teams of engineers, designers, and data scientists at companies from Waylens and HiOperator to Riviera Partners. Phil has a track record of launching revenue-generating hardware products (Kickstarter campaigns that drove $930K+ preorders and $3M+ sales) and scaling B2B SaaS features for recruiting and CX use cases. Comfortable at the intersection of research and product, he shipped academic-grade prototypes at MIT Media Lab and translated them into commercial offerings and consultative engagements. Based in Alexandria, VA, he pairs technical depth in systems and prototyping with entrepreneurial grit and a knack for turning complex research into market-ready products.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Empowered: Product Leadership Workshop, Empowered: Product Leadership Workshop at Marty KaganInformation Technology, Information Technology at George Mason UniversityMaster of Science - MS Media Lab, Master of Science - MS Media Lab at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyThe Peddie SchoolY CombinatorComputer Science, Computer Science at United States Naval AcademyProduct Strategy Program, Product Strategy Program at ReforgeBachelor of Science - BS Geographic Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Geographic Science at James Madison University
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Github Skills (49)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
CenterForCollectiveLearning/Place-Pulse
Jan 2012 - Jun 2012
Contributions:48 commits in 4 months
philsalesses/Place-Pulse
Mar 2021 - Nov 2023
Contributions:1 issue in 2 years 9 months
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