Summary
Chris Maeder is an engineering director and licensed civil engineer with over 35 years of experience blending water resources expertise and software product leadership. He builds and scales multidisciplinary teams to deliver commercial civil engineering software, guiding architecture, UX, QA, and product strategy from concept through global deployment. Chris has deep domain mastery in stormwater, floodplain, hydraulic and watershed modeling, and has translated that technical authority into successful startups, an Autodesk acquisition, and executive roles. Known for hands-on technical assessments and setting coding and QA standards, he pairs pragmatic engineering judgment with customer-facing vision. Based in Madison, WI, he uniquely bridges traditional civil engineering practice with distributed software development to accelerate adoption of next-generation infrastructure tools.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
BS, MS, Civil Engineering, Computer Science, BS, MS, Civil Engineering, Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison