Summary
David Pugmire is a product marketing leader and entrepreneur with 13 years of experience blending software development, UX, hardware engineering, and go-to-market strategy. As Senior Product Marketing Manager at FamilySearch and CCO/co‑founder of TreeCrossing, he has scaled partner ecosystems, rebuilt developer portals, and extended RootsTech into a multilingual, global conference with over 120,000 viewers. He previously managed product for Microsoft developer platforms (.NET, Visual Studio, Silverlight, WPF), giving him deep technical credibility alongside customer-focused marketing. David designs events and competitions that accelerate industry innovation—most notably creating the RootsTech Innovator Showdown and growing the Innovator Summit from hundreds to a thousand participants. Known for spotting trends early, he pioneered online family trees long before they became mainstream and combines entrepreneurial grit with hands-on engineering to move products from prototype to platform.
14 years of coding experience