Steve Ottenad
GTM - AI Success Engineer at OpenAI
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSteve Ottenad is a GTM-focused AI success engineer and business leader with 13 years of hands-on engineering and 15+ years building teams and solutions across enterprise and startup environments. He blends technical depth—leading applied AI and enterprise modernization for Fortune 500 clients as a principal architect—with product and go-to-market expertise from founding and exiting a SaaS reviews startup. At OpenAI and briefly at Salesforce he has focused on operationalizing AI for customers, translating complex ML capabilities into measurable business outcomes. Steve’s background spans full-stack delivery roles through to architect and delivery director positions, giving him a rare combination of technical delivery credibility and commercial instincts. Based in Seattle, he is comfortable navigating regulated industries like healthcare and financial services while driving pragmatic modernization. A detail that sets him apart is repeated success moving innovations from prototype to acquisition, evidencing both technical execution and market savvy.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Federal Way High School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (55)
api-rest10
lists10
open-source10
sku10
mws10
java10
callback10
api10
amazon-mws10
javascript9
powershell9
openxml8
cdn8
amazon8
css7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sottenad/exitticket
Jun 2015 - Aug 2022
Contributions:14 pushes in 7 years 2 months
sottenad/jService
Feb 2014 - Jan 2023
A set of simple trivia service that serves the answers/questions pulled from jArchive
Contributions:120 commits, 22 PRs, 72 pushes in 9 years
javajavascriptserves
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