Chief Technology Officer Major League Baseball
Jason Gaedtke joined Major League Baseball in May of 2017 as Chief Technology Officer, overseeing technology development and operations for the League. This includes in-stadium baseball technology enabling Statcast, Instant Replay, Broadcast Services and Umpire Evaluation as well as AtBat and Ballpark mobile apps, MLB and Club websites and MLB.tv streaming. Gaedtke’s team is also responsible for Enterprise Baseball and IT systems supporting League operation.
This role allows Jason to combine 20+ years of engineering and technology leadership with a life-long passion for the game of baseball. His previous professional experience includes senior engineering leadership roles with Google, YouTube, Spotify, Comcast and Time Warner Cable. At Google, Jason led the team that built YouTube’s Live Streaming platform, which has scaled to support over 9M concurrent users.
Jason is married with two children and makes his home in Northern Colorado.
Professor & Director Robotic Vision Laboratory, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Brigham Young University