Ted Spence

Over a thirty-year career, Ted Spence has led development teams across a wide variety of startups, established businesses, and video game companies. A talented IT and engineering leader, he built renowned websites in the Web 1.0 era, designed Avalara’s automated returns filing business, and designed the AvaTax REST API. He has built successful engineering teams from the ground up at Lockstep (now Sage) and EEDAR (now NPD), and delivered world-class developer tools at Facebook. Ted teaches Data Analytics at Bellevue College and lives in West Seattle with his wife and daughter. You can find him biking to Alki beach whenever the clouds break.