Summary
Robert 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.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Camden County College