Ben Kaiser

Ben Kaiser is a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft, based on the Gold Coast, Australia. He has spent most of the past decade at Microsoft leading front-end teams behind products used by millions — the Azure.com pricing calculator, and the OneDrive and Microsoft Lists progressive web apps — with a consistent focus on web performance and architecture at scale.

He writes for SEOmator about the engineering side of technical SEO: Core Web Vitals, JavaScript rendering, and the front-end decisions that determine how fast a page loads and how cleanly search engines and AI answer engines can crawl it. He holds a Master's in Computer Software Engineering from the University of Melbourne, and was a Grand Prize winner of Google Code-in 2013, completing 46 tasks for the KDE project. On his own blog he writes about where software engineering is heading, most recently on MCP-first application development.