Craig Kaes's guest appearances

Craig Kaes

Joel Beasley | Modern CTO

Engineering People Podcast

Eric Schrock

Leonid Movsesyan

Nir Eyal

Ryan Singer

Donna Johnson

David King

Andy Budd

Brian Balfour

Nick Caldwell

Andreessen Horowitz

Michael Levin

Tim Berners-Lee

Zoltan Istvan

Ken Coleman

Todd Allen

OwlTail

Today we are talking to Craig, the SVP of Engineering at SendGrid.  And we discuss advice to CTOs going through a merger or acquisition, winning over the team by solving the problems that really matter, and why as a leader, the most important thing you can do is bring in the next generation of leaders.All of this, right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!

Today we are talking to Craig, the SVP of Engineering at SendGrid.  And we discuss advice to CTOs going through a merger or acquisition, winning over the team by solving the problems that really matter, and why as a leader, the most important thing you can do is bring in the next generation of leaders.<br><br>All of this, right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!

#103 Craig Kaes - SVP of Engineering at SendGrid

Craig brings over 15 years experience leading, contributing to, and growing engineering organizations in top SaaS technology companies. Craig joined SendGrid in early 2015 from Cisco where as the Senior Engineering Director, he most recently grew the organization from a small co-located startup to a team of 150 distributed engineers. In his 7 years at Cisco, Craig held multiple Senior Engineering roles across Mobility, Platform, and Messaging focusing on growth and scale while modernizing architectures and processes. Prior to its acquisition by Cisco, Craig successfully grew from Technical Lead to VP of Engineering for Jabber where he was responsible for all of engineering – client (both desktop and mobility), server, and quality assurance.  https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-kaes-04a06b5/

<p>Craig brings over 15 years experience leading, contributing to, and growing engineering organizations in top SaaS technology companies. Craig joined SendGrid in early 2015 from Cisco where as the Senior Engineering Director, he most recently grew the organization from a small co-located startup to a team of 150 distributed engineers. In his 7 years at Cisco, Craig held multiple Senior Engineering roles across Mobility, Platform, and Messaging focusing on growth and scale while modernizing architectures and processes. Prior to its acquisition by Cisco, Craig successfully grew from Technical Lead to VP of Engineering for Jabber where he was responsible for all of engineering – client (both desktop and mobility), server, and quality assurance.  <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-kaes-04a06b5/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-kaes-04a06b5/</a></p>