Robert Kaufmann
Chief Technology Officer at Gaize
New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Kaufmann is a seasoned engineering leader and CTO with 12+ years of hands-on experience building platform, AI/ML, SRE, and product engineering teams across startups and growth-stage companies. He has a track record of translating strategy into execution—driving cloud cost reductions, scaling ML infrastructure, overhauling incident response, and delivering systems that enable personalization and growth. As a founder and former director at multiple companies, he combines entrepreneurial grit with enterprise-grade operational rigor, having led migrations to Kubernetes and formed first SRE teams. After a reset focused on family, health, and personal projects, he’s now guiding mission-driven early to mid-stage teams as CTO at Gaize. Based in New Jersey, he thrives where strong engineering foundations unlock product velocity and business outcomes. A practical tinkerer at heart, he pairs technical depth with a knack for simplifying complex systems to measurable results.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Camden County College
Github Skills (45)
monitor10
python10
machine-learning10
logger10
scheduler10
automation10
apache9
data-science9
data-engineering9
realtime9
meilisearch9
data-pipelines9
elixir9
workflow-engine9
api-server9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
robottokauf3/meilisearch-elixir
Mar 2020 - Sep 2021
Elixir client for MeiliSearch
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 34 commits in 1 year 5 months
elixirelixir-clientmeilisearch
robottokauf3/rok3.me
Dec 2015 - Feb 2019
Contributions:23 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 2 months
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