
Roger Deetz
I'm an experienced technology leader, with 20+ years experience as a software developer, designer, architect, and executive.
Currently Vice President of Engineering at Blueprint. Before that Vice President of Technology at Springbuk and Vice President of Engineering at Angie's List.
Founder and CEO of IN Tech for Progress.
Before that, an architect at Double-Take (now Carbonite) and an architect, designer, and developer at InstallShield (now Flexera).
Before that, a dairy farmer, 4-H club president, Dekalb High School Student Council President, WIFF-AM 1570 weekend morning DJ, and Indiana University Kelley School of Business Honors Program graduate.
I proudly call Indianapolis, Indiana my home, where I live with my wife Amber and two daughters. When I am not at home in Indy cooking, running, and cheerleading for our tech community, I am probably traveling the world shooting Nikon.
Indianapolis Business Journal Tech Exec of the Year 2023
Top Honoree for Private Companies (under $100M)
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Connect with Me
Community
Appearances
- Technology Leaders Podcast Episode 17 Brought to you by Celigo
- Engineering Leadership Summit
- Using metrics to scale an engineering team at a high-growth startup
- Powderkeg Future of Work Pitch
- Transforming Angie's List
- How to lead a successful product team The Powderkeg Podcast, including my friend and colleague Jeremy Leventhal
- Embracing your inner latent leader The Scaling Software Teams Podcast
- The Springbuk Intelligence Engine
- Driving Better Health Investment Decisions
- Legacy Data Warehousing Dirty Little Secret
- Lessons learned from one year of Play Framework The Lightbend Web Architecture Series
Quotables
- Is Unicorn Lust Impeding Investment in Local Startups? Indianapolis Business Journal article by my friend Kristen Cooper, quoting one of my tweets
- Powderkeg Culture Awards Spotlight Inside Indiana Business article featuring Springbuk
- Roger Deetz is in Indy for the job, but also friends and food TechPoint Index
Skills
- Technology leadership, organizational design, agile processes, software architecture, user interaction
- C#, Scala, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, C++, F#
- English, German (little rusty), Mandarin (learning)
- Cooking, photography, travel