Summary
Keith Katsma is a seasoned software and data architecture leader with over two decades of hands-on engineering experience and nine years in senior architecture and leadership roles, currently serving as Director of Software and Data Architecture at Bain & Company. He has led large-scale platform and data initiatives across financial services and enterprise SaaS, from mobile/web high-availability systems to Data Warehouse-as-a-Service and custom cloud-native solutions. Comfortable toggling between strategic organization-level architecture and building code, he blends deep technical fluency across SPA frameworks, SOA, and cloud platforms with practical delivery discipline like CI/CD and lifecycle automation. Based in Lake Zurich, Illinois, he pairs an MS in Applied Computer Science with a career-long focus on translating complex business needs into resilient, performant systems — and still enjoys rolling up his sleeves to prototype and iterate on the ideas he architects.
9 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Applied Computer Science, MS, Applied Computer Science at Illinois State University