jed salazar

I ship things at the edge of security and infrastructure. Distributed systems, AI infrastructure, cryptography, observability, and network engineering.

I didn't follow the traditional path into tech. I came up from the ground, spending years building skills, landed at Google, and shared those skills with over 400 engineers, globally. Since then, I've been at a string of startups where I keep repeating the same process: showing up early and turning a promising idea into a production-ready product that changes the industry. It never gets easier. I keep signing up for it. Currently doing it as Field CTO at Edera.

I grew up on O'Reilly books and then I ended up writing one.

When I'm not parsing syscalls and packets in hex, I'm running mountains out of a van, chasing glaciers and coastline through the Pacific Northwest and Colorado with a dog that understands mountains better than I ever will. The endless bounty of wonder in nature > xterm-256color.

I care about deep technology, and humans.