Summary
Steve Kaeser is a senior engineering leader with 11+ years of progressive experience building and scaling data and client-facing engineering teams across healthtech, SaaS, and logistics. He has led teams from hands-on data engineering and ETL (pyspark, Databricks, Fivetran) to product integrations and vendor selection, and has a proven record of reducing operational friction—e.g., a 90% time savings in provider-directory workflows and zero-downtime finance warehouse migrations. Steve excels at hiring and growing high-performing teams, designing cross-team technical plans for multi-team product delivery, and translating customer requirements into QA frameworks and reliable pipelines. He brings deep practical experience with large-scale data platforms, CDP integrations, and cloud migrations, plus a knack for teaching and evangelizing technical best practices to both engineers and business stakeholders. Based in Clinton, NJ, he pairs big-picture architecture and budgeting experience with hands-on implementation history dating back to managing 192-node Hadoop clusters and enterprise customs systems.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at University of Maryland
Computer Science, Computer Science at Elizabethtown College