Summary
Stephen Hilton is a pragmatic, customer-focused CTO/CPO and product leader with nine years in senior roles and two decades of hands-on data, analytics, and SalesTech experience across startups and enterprise firms in the San Francisco Bay Area. He excels at connecting product, engineering, and go-to-market teams to drive measurable revenue and adoption—building global customer-facing organizations, ELT pipelines, SDKs/CLIs, and marketplace integrations that turn technical capabilities into deployable solutions. At MakeInfinite Labs he scaled GTM operations, sponsored a “Customer Zero” initiative that generated 400+ UAT tickets, and continues advising startups on AI and Web3 strategy. Prior roles at Teradata and Best Buy show a consistent pattern of architecting data platforms, automating revenue operations, and shifting teams from sales-first to cloud- and customer-first cultures. He blends deep analytic rigor and an MBA mindset with hands-on engineering (Rust CLI, Python SDK) and clear stakeholder communication to get complex programs adopted in production.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Information Technology Management, MBA Information Technology Management at University of Phoenix
Professional Training Visual Studio MSIL C# VB XML ASPx, Professional Training Visual Studio MSIL C# VB XML ASPx at AppDev
Communications Speech English Theatre Arts Film Studies, Communications Speech English Theatre Arts Film Studies at Minnesota State Moorhead
Project Management Fundimentals Project Management, Project Management Fundimentals Project Management at Best Buy Project Management Office
Professional Training Data Modeling and Design Principles, Professional Training Data Modeling and Design Principles at Cl&ss Partners