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David Sainte-Claire

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Director of Engineering at Shield AI
📍 San Jose, California, United States

David Sainte-Claire is a senior technology leader with over 15 years of experience architecting distributed backend systems and scaling engineering teams at Shield AI, Meta, and Rivian. A graduate of San Diego State University, he is recognized by colleagues for his deep technical skills and high-quality work in systems integration.

Outside of his formal leadership role, David dedicates personal time to hands-on development. He recently spent a weekend building a basic agentic AI application template, showcasing a genuine passion for exploring and creating with emerging AI technologies beyond his day-to-day responsibilities.

He is a co-inventor on a patent for creating a "virtual meeting lobby" for people waiting to join an online event.

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Experience
10 Years
Current Role
Director of Engineering
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
San Jose, California, United States
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AI Infrastructure
He leads the team building "Forge, " the mission-critical infrastructure for developing, training, and validating Shield AI's autonomous AI pilot.
Distributed Systems
His career is centered on architecting and scaling massively distributed systems, including owning the infrastructure for Instagram's 2-Factor Authentication.
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Career

Work history

7-2025
Director of Engineering
Shield AI
4-2024 - 7-2025
Software Engineering Manager
Meta
1-2022 - 4-2024
Senior Software Engineering Manager
Rivian
1-2018 - 1-2022
Engineering Manager, Mobile Partnerships
Facebook
2-2016 - 1-2018
Senior Staff Software Engineer / Manager
SmartThings
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Education
High School
Bonita Vista
B.S
SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY December 2004
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