Summary
Daghan Altas is a product and go-to-market leader with 11 years of senior experience shaping networking and security products and a longer technical career stretching back to engineering and solutions roles. Currently Head of Product at Semgrep and formerly CRO there, he has steered product, sales and revenue through hypergrowth stages while also creating the Meraki MX firewall/SD‑WAN gateway that became a multi‑billion dollar business. Comfortable toggling between deep technical detail and commercial strategy, he blends product management, data science training from Berkeley, and field-proven sales leadership to launch enterprise-grade security and networking platforms. Based in San Francisco, he brings a rare mix of hands-on systems expertise (microelectronics background) and GTM execution, and still engages directly with the open-source Semgrep community.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Maitrise Electronique Electrotechnique et Automatique, Maitrise Electronique Electrotechnique et Automatique at Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III
Data Science Certification Statistics, Data Science Certification Statistics at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Master’s Degree Microelectronics, Master’s Degree Microelectronics at McGill University
High School Mathematics and Science, High School Mathematics and Science at Lycée Saint Joseph, Istanbul, Turkey
Master’s Degree Master of Information and Data Science, Master’s Degree Master of Information and Data Science at UC Berkeley School of Information
English, French, Turkish, Swedish