Rob Teegarden

Chief Technology Officer at clearer.io

Mission Viejo, California, United States

About Rob Teegarden

Rob Teegarden is Chief Technology Officer at clearer.io. Location: Mission Viejo, California, United States.

CTO at Clearer.io, leading a global technology organization across Engineering, DevOps, AI, Security, and IT. Accountable for platform reliability, security posture, cost discipline, and AI strategy across a multi region SaaS operation. I focus on value creation through technology. Modernizing legacy architecture, strengthening operational rigor, and aligning engineering investment to measurable business outcomes. Recent impact includes reducing cloud spend by 35 percent while continuing to scale, and decreasing customer impacting incidents by 85 percent through improved reliability practices and accountability. I am equally focused on future leverage. I founded an AI Guild to drive structured adoption across the company and increased AI utilization within engineering from 20 percent to full adoption, embedding AI into daily workflows rather than treating it as experimentation. Beyond individual initiatives, I build repeatable operating playbooks for scaling SaaS organizations, improving technical maturity, and strengthening leadership depth across distributed teams. I partner closely with executive leadership on capital allocation, risk management, and scalable growth. Technology is not a cost center. It is a multiplier when aligned to execution and discipline. Former United States Marine. Software engineer at heart. Calm under pressure and biased toward results.

Skills

  • .NET
  • Web Services
  • Agile Methodologies

Additional experience

  • Technical Fellow

    BairesDev

    Started April 2025

Education

  • Computer Science, San Diego State University
  • Computer Science, Palomar College