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Ben Kaiser

14+ years of experience

Author

Ben Kaiser

Principal Software Engineer

Works at Microsoft

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 AI-first application development, and before that MCP-first application development.

Areas of expertise

Web performanceCore Web VitalsJavaScript renderingFront-end architectureProgressive web apps

Background

Credentials

  • Master's in Computer Software Engineering, University of Melbourne
  • Bachelor of Business (Information Technology), Swinburne University of Technology

Selected achievements

  • Led the front-end team behind the Azure.com pricing calculator at Microsoft
  • Led development of the OneDrive and Microsoft Lists progressive web apps (PWAs)

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