Summary
Jeff Espenschied is a Staff Engineer with 14 years of professional experience who blends a low-level systems background in C and embedded NetBSD work with a decade of building data-driven web applications and full-stack services. He excels at shipping pragmatic, maintainable applications using .NET, ASP.NET MVC, C#, JavaScript, and a broad operational stack (IIS, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Tomcat), preferring to build production-ready apps rather than invent new frameworks. At DataRobot he moved between individual contributor and leadership roles—leading a six-person team, rebuilding a data catalog UI, and later focusing on API client and integrated notebook experiences—demonstrating both technical direction and hands-on execution. His career roots in embedded and build engineering inform a disciplined approach to configuration management and performance, and he regularly mentors engineers and sets technical direction. Based in Columbus, Ohio, Jeff brings a practical balance of systems thinking and web engineering that helps teams deliver robust, data-centric products.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at Ohio Northern University
Computer Science, Computer Science at The Ohio State University