Xavier Salazar
Security Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXavier Salazar is a Security Software Engineer with a decade of experience building scalable, secure systems across startups and large enterprises, currently at Grafana Labs after leading Trust & Safety efforts at Slack. He combines strong TypeScript and Terraform skills with hands-on DevOps practice to deliver production-grade APIs and infrastructure, having driven high-frequency Terraform-managed deployments and AWS-based integrations. At Slack he led child safety and moderation tooling, and his open-source work ranges from front-end UI refinements for Google’s Emoji Kitchen to improving OpenAPI security typings in hapi-swagger. A UT Austin ECE graduate pursuing a CS master’s at Georgia Tech, he brings a practical focus on performance and compliance—and, not obviously, a penchant for planning routes from the Pacific Northwest to somewhere by bike.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at AustinMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Russian
Github Skills (15)
hapi10
typescript10
vite10
typescripts10
swagger10
openapi10
react10
typescript-types10
emoji10
api-design9
javascript8
css8
html8
ui-design7
seo7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
xsalazar/emoji-kitchen
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
🧑🍳 This repository contains the source code for the website https://emojikitchen.dev and allows for quick and easy browsing of the over 100,000 supported emoji mashups as part of Google's Emoji Kitchen.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 120 commits, 34 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Xavier primarily focused on developing the front-end user interface for the emoji kitchen website. Their work included the initial application setup, scaffolding the core components, and refactoring the main kitchen component. They implemented features like a bulk download functionality and updated the SEO content and meta tags. The user also made enhancements to the layout and design by adding a footer and adjusting the scaling for larger screens, and added support for new emoji.
emojireactdevemojikitchengoogle
hapi-swagger/hapi-swagger
Jul 2021 - Jul 2021
A Swagger interface for hapi
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Xavier's contributions focus on enhancing the type definitions for the hapi-swagger library, specifically around security schemes and requirements. They introduced types for `ScopesType`, `SecuritySchemeType`, and `SecurityRequirementsType`, which are crucial for defining and applying security configurations within the Swagger documentation generated by hapi-swagger. Their work included adding and updating the type definitions to align with the OpenAPI specification, improving the library's ability to correctly represent security-related elements. Additionally, they addressed minor formatting issues.
hapiopenapihapijsswagger
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