Dave Isbitski is Chief Developer Relations Engineer at Chainlink Labs, where he helps enterprises, developers, and financial institutions adopt next-generation technologies including blockchain infrastructure, tokenized assets, stablecoins, AI agents, and decentralized systems.
Over the past 30+ years, Dave has helped organizations navigate major platform shifts across cloud computing, mobile, voice AI, blockchain, and now artificial intelligence. Prior to Chainlink, he held leadership roles at Microsoft, Amazon, and AWS, including serving as the first Chief Evangelist for Amazon Alexa, where he helped scale the Alexa Skills Kit ecosystem to more than 100,000 skills, 700,000 developers, hundreds of millions of devices, and billions of weekly interactions worldwide.
Today, Dave is focused on AI-native software development, agentic workflows, developer productivity, and the intersection of AI and decentralized systems. He actively builds with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google AI technologies and shares practical implementation patterns, experiments, and field notes through his Real World AI Lab project.
A frequent keynote speaker, podcast host, technical educator, and trusted advisor to CTOs, engineering leaders, and enterprise teams, Dave is passionate about helping organizations understand and adopt transformative technologies that create real-world impact. Follow him online at thedavedev.com.
