# Alex Salazar (slim)

> Alex Salazar is co-founder and CEO, Arcade.dev of which owns Smithery. Smithery on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Co-founder and CEO, Arcade.dev, which owns Smithery.

## What Alex builds

- [Smithery](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smithery.md), graded D, 51/100, in Agent tool access. Smithery is a hosted registry and connection service for MCP servers, part of Arcade.dev since August 2026. Agents search the registry, create connections and call tools through a REST API, a per-namespace MCP endpoint, a TypeScript client or a CLI. Co-founder and CEO, Arcade.dev, which owns Smithery, researched 2026-10-28.

## Works with

- [Anirudh Kamath](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/anirudh-kamath/), Co-founder, Smithery (now part of Arcade)
- [Arjun Kumar](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/arjun-kumar/), Founding Engineer
- [Gurdas Nijor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/gurdas-nijor/), Founding Engineer
- [Henry Mao](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/henry-mao/), Co-founder, CEO

## Questions

### Who is Alex Salazar?

Alex Salazar is co-founder and CEO, Arcade.dev of which owns Smithery.

### What does Smithery (Arcade.dev) make?

Anchor Terminal lists Smithery from Smithery (Arcade.dev).

### How are Alex's tools graded?

Smithery is graded D, 51 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://smithery.ai/about
- https://smithery.ai/future
- https://x.com/kamathematic
- https://x.com/Calclavia
- https://x.com/arjunkmrm
- https://x.com/gnijor
- https://smithery.ai/
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/smithery-ai
- https://smithery.ai/docs

Not the same person as [Alex Salazar](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/alex-salazar/) (Arcade.dev), as far as the research can tell.

These are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched.