Summary
Steve Hedden is a product leader with eight years of experience turning data science, machine learning, and knowledge-graph research into operational SaaS products that scale for enterprise customers. He’s led AI- and ontology-driven product strategy and delivery at S&P Global and TopQuadrant, driving architectures that handled hundreds of millions of data points and enabled rapid ontology building for knowledge-graph deployments. Comfortable at the intersection of research and product, he has deep domain experience in international development and environmental modeling—having led IFs modeling work, field deployments, and policy-facing research—bringing a user- and mission-focused lens to technical roadmaps. Now based in Costa Rica and serving on the W3C Advisory Committee, he combines cross-functional persuasion with hands-on data infrastructure fluency to make complex, AI-ready data governance tangible for customers.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts International Development, Master of Arts International Development at University of Denver - Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs
Bachelor of Arts Philosophy and Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts Philosophy and Mathematics at Rutgers University