Salman Paracha
Senior Vice President, AI at Katanémo
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSalman Paracha is a senior technology executive and founder with 15+ years of experience building cloud-native products and teams that scale to millions of users. Currently Senior Vice President, AI at DigitalOcean and co-founder/CEO of Katanemo, he focuses on primitives and universal data planes that simplify building agent-native and GenAI systems. His background includes leadership roles across AWS serverless and EC2, and Oracle Cloud@Customer, combining product, engineering and go-to-market experience for complex distributed systems. Known for shipping developer-focused platforms (AWS Serverless Application Repository, SAM) and commercializing cloud services, he balances visionary systems thinking with pragmatic delivery. Based in Seattle, he brings both startup grit and enterprise-scale discipline, with an unusual dual focus on developer experience and low-cost, commodity hardware deployments. He holds CS and MBA credentials from the University of Florida and often blends product strategy with deep technical ownership in open-source and commercial projects.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Marketing, MBA, Marketing at University of Florida - Warrington College of BusinessComputer Science, Business and Information Systems, Computer Science, Business and Information Systems at University of Florida
Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, English, Spanish
Github Skills (25)
serverless-application-model10
observability10
envoyproxy10
agentic10
proxy10
proxy-server10
prompt10
sam10
llm-inference10
dataplane10
llm10
serverless-applications10
aws-sam10
aws-cloudformation10
openai10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
salmanap/serverless-application-model
May 2019 - May 2019
AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) prescribes rules for expressing Serverless applications on AWS.
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 day
aws-serverless-application-modelaws-serverlessserverless-application-modelserverless-applicationsserverless
katanemo/plano
Oct 2024 - Apr 2026
Plano is an AI-native proxy server and data plane for agentic apps. Smart LLM routing, observability, agent orchestration, and guardrails so you stay focused on your agents core logic.
Contributions:1 release, 277 reviews, 131 PRs in 1 year 6 months
agenticaidataplanellmobservability
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