Bill Kayser is a seasoned software architect and data scientist with 18 years of experience designing production-grade monitoring, analytics, and performance systems. A founding engineer at New Relic, he helped build core agents, a custom analytics storage engine (NRDB), alerting and distributed architectures, and pioneered statistical and ML-driven visualization prototypes using Ruby, Java, and R. Now based in Portland, he leads product and technical efforts as Project Director for a sports-mentoring platform while consulting as a freelance architect, blending hands-on coding with strategic delivery. His domain expertise spans application performance monitoring, supply chain optimization, and financial services, and he brings a rare mix of deep statistical modeling and full-stack engineering to solve observability and operational problems. An early adopter of pragmatic engineering practices, he also contributes time to local soccer governance, reflecting a commitment to community-driven impact.
18 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Ridge High School
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Stanford University
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Bill Kayser - Project Director at North Clackamas Soccer Club