Steve Salazar
SVP, SaaS & Cloud Engineering at IDEO
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSteve Salazar is a product-oriented technology leader and founder with over 13 years of hands-on experience building software, hardware, and AI-driven products across startups, design firms, and enterprise contexts. As SVP of SaaS & Cloud Engineering at Impinj and founder of Blackbird Studios, he blends strategic technical leadership with deep executional skills in cloud platforms, IoT, and embedded systems. He has shipped multiple real-world generative AI products—using LLMs for agentic systems, data transformation, labeling, and synthetic data—to accelerate engineering velocity and improve accuracy in production. Steve is skilled at navigating high ambiguity, quickly validating technical feasibility, and aligning design ambition with engineering realities to deliver measurable outcomes. His background spans chip- and test-system design to consumer IoT and large-scale web platforms, giving him an unusual fluency across silicon, firmware, cloud, and product UX. Based in San Francisco, he is known for building elite cross-disciplinary teams and establishing collaborative partnerships with firms like IDEO to turn bold concepts into reliable products.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science Hardware Engineering English, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science Hardware Engineering English at University of Washington
Spanish
Github Skills (80)
http10
web-development10
javascript10
stream10
playback10
html10
css10
player10
fundamentals9
react-component9
hls-stream9
video-streaming9
streaming9
documentation9
s3-bucket9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
eagsalazar/ConnectblueSerial
Aug 2013 - Nov 2014
Contributions:27 commits in 1 year 2 months
eagsalazar/sf2_to_js
May 2013 - May 2013
Gem and scripts to convert sf2 sound font files to js consumable by https://github.com/eagsalazar/midi.js
Contributions:8 commits in 1 day
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