I work at Microsoft, and TinyAnalytics is my first agentic product. As its co-founder, I’m building it to solve one simple problem: help people understand what is happening on their sites without wrestling with a complicated analytics stack.
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—including 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.
