Christoph Saalfeld
Sr. Manager Software Development at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorChristoph Saalfeld is a seasoned software leadership professional with 17 years in software and embedded hardware, including 12 years in management. Based in Seattle, he currently serves as Sr. Manager of Software Development at Amazon, leading teams building and operating AWS IoT Core and cloud-scale devices, with involvement in initiatives such as EC2 Spot Fleet. His background spans automotive software, vehicle diagnostics, large-scale back-end services, and network communications, with a proven ability to drive high-quality delivery in Agile environments for both critical electronic components and mobile network software. He excels at navigating complex, dependency-heavy programs while optimizing rapid development and validation cycles for targeted solutions, balancing software quality, cost, and on-time delivery. His career includes leadership roles at Daimler, NetMotion Wireless, and Amazon, reflecting a cross-domain track record of bridging automotive engineering with cloud-native platforms.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
German, English, Russian
Github Skills (17)
aws-iot9
aws9
sdk9
protocols8
crypto8
encryption8
c998
fhe8
ssl8
cryptography7
embedded7
iot6
node-js3
javascript3
nodejs3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
christophsaalfeld/FirstAndOnly
Sep 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:1 push, 6 branches in 19 days
pythonmyselfpurposeabsolutelyjava
aws/aws-iot-device-sdk-embedded-C
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
SDK for connecting to AWS IoT from a device using embedded C.
Contributions:4 commits in 1 day
aws-iotsdkembeddedawsembedded-c
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