David Larsen

Baltimore, MD · LinkedIn · davidlarsen.me

Technical Account Manager · Enterprise SaaS · Developer Platforms · Cybersecurity

Technical Account Manager at Socket with a seven-figure enterprise portfolio and over $3M in contributed expansion since joining. Delivered 150% NRR in Q4 and 200% in Q1; team voted Team Player of the Quarter (Q4) and Post-Sales Person of the Quarter (Q1) back-to-back. Combines IC depth in APIs, integrations, and production code with leadership reach across mentoring, hiring, and CS systems design. Prior manager experience running post-sales operations at Sentry and Synapse.

Experience

Technical Account Manager

Sep 2025 – Present

Socket· Remote

  • Own a seven-figure ARR enterprise portfolio at an early-stage B2B SaaS company; delivered 150% NRR in Q4 and 200% in Q1, with $3M+ in contributed expansion since joining.
  • Recognized as Team Player of the Quarter (Q4) and Post-Sales Person of the Quarter (Q1) by team vote in back-to-back quarters; also won Highest Output and Most Valuable Project at the Q4 Customer Engineering Hackathon.
  • Surfaced renewal risk on a six-figure enterprise account, contributing to executive escalation and successful retention.
  • Built AI-powered tooling that lifts the whole TAM team: rebuilt the quarterly health check process around live product data and MCP-driven automation, integrated Linear with HubSpot and Slack to centralize customer asks and bug tracking, and built a Granola-based feedback loop that grades my customer calls weekly.
  • Evaluated, selected, and independently implemented Vitally as the company-wide CS platform; modeled onboarding, renewal risk, and advocacy workflows; migrated historical data from CRM; platform now supports full company ARR.
  • Designed and operationalized a quarterly renewal risk governance process, replacing ad-hoc notes with structured risk fields and narratives, increasing executive visibility and enabling proactive intervention on high-risk renewals.
  • Rebuilt the end-to-end customer onboarding operating model from scratch, introducing standardized projects and customer-facing artifacts to improve consistency, accountability, and time-to-value.
  • Contributed production code to Socket Basics, including auto-discovery of Dockerfiles in GitHub repositories, reducing configuration friction and improving adoption.
  • Mentored across sales engineering, sales, technical support, and account management through 1:1s, knowledge sharing sessions, and talks.
  • Participated in 12+ hiring interview loops for Technical Account Managers and a Support Manager role.

GTM Engineer

Nov 2023 – Jul 2025

Sentry· Remote

  • Built AI-driven knowledge systems and operational workflows that reduced resolution times by ~20% and increased enterprise customer self-service.
  • Engineered 24/7 on-call processes and tooling for enterprise accounts, improving critical response times by ~50%.
  • Built incident SLO frameworks and executive RCA reporting systems to communicate platform reliability and risk to strategic accounts.
  • Operationalized renewal health, escalation strategy, and expansion planning workflows alongside Customer Success leadership for high-ARR accounts.
  • Designed cross-functional incident response workflows connecting support, engineering, product, and account teams for high-severity customer issues.

Senior Manager, Customer Support

Jul 2021 – Oct 2023

Synapse· Remote

  • Built KPI and SLA frameworks that reduced backlog by ~45% and improved customer satisfaction.
  • Led technical escalations across APIs, authentication, and platform reliability.
  • Partnered with CS and Sales to reduce churn risk and support expansion motions in high-ARR accounts.

Earlier Career (2016–2021)

Senior Technical Support Engineer at Contrast Security and Tenable; built deep expertise in enterprise security tooling, customer escalations, and cross-functional troubleshooting. Recognized for customer impact and technical leadership.

Skills & Tooling

Technical depth (developer-adjacent)

REST APIs, webhooks, OAuth, SQL, GitHub, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, production code contributions, MCP tools, Claude Code, AI automation, developer and security tooling

CS systems & operations (admin / builder)

CS platform implementation (Vitally, Gainsight), CRM administration (Salesforce, HubSpot), ticketing systems (Zendesk), conversation intelligence (Gong), health score modeling, workflow automation, data migration, AI-driven process automation

Customer success leadership

Post-sales org design, onboarding operating models, renewal risk governance, executive QBRs, account segmentation, expansion strategy, churn intervention

Cross-functional leadership

Sales-to-CS handoffs, product feedback loops, support escalation frameworks, executive stakeholder alignment, hiring and interviewing, mentorship across sales engineering, sales, support, and account management

Collaboration & delivery

Slack, Notion, Jira, Linear, async documentation, change management, process rollouts

Signature strengths

Strong IC ownership across enterprise accounts, building CS infrastructure from zero, AI-powered team productivity tooling, bridging technical and business stakeholders

Education

B.S. Computer Networks & Cybersecurity

University of Maryland Global Campus