Meet Our Team

One of us used to tour in a rock band. Another greets co-workers in an Irish brogue. And one of us can ride a unicycle. Who does what? Read on.

Jason Beutler

CEO

Jason’s dream world would be filled with interesting people that constantly have new and innovative ideas and want to talk about them. And chocolate. Lots of chocolate.

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Several years ago, Jason Beutler was teaching a college computer engineering class when he realized that his students were writing better code than an outsourced team he was supervising at the same time. And that’s how RoboSource was born. With almost 20 years of professional programming experience, you might expect Jason to spend his free time reading fantasy fiction, playing board games, or drinking Mountain Dew. He does. But he also spends a fair amount of time playing competitive sand volleyball and fanning hard-core at Notre Dame football games. His passion for Notre Dame extended to completing his MBA there in 2009. Professionally, Jason is passionate about process improvement and using accountability to grow young developers. He speaks often on this topic, to audiences as diverse as coding conference attendees, classes full of university students, and computer science educators.

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Notre Dame University — MBA (2009)

Taylor University — BS in Computer Science / Systems (2000)

Kendra Beutler

President

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Kendra never wanted a minivan. But she has one, and it’s often filled up with team members for company lunches. They call it the “mom van.”

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Kendra Beutler loves working with young adults. For many years of her career, that involved teaching at local universities. Now she gets to hang out with college students and young adults all the time at RoboSource. Kendra is passionate about stories, and she’s an avid reader of fiction. But she also loves a great in-depth feature story story about pretty much anyone. When Kendra’s not working or carting kids all over, she enjoys making pasta sauce or specialty candies. And Kendra and Jason love to travel with their kids. Any reason is a great reason to throw everyone in the car and hit the road.

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Ball State University — MA in Journalism (2009)

Taylor University — BA in Journalism (2000)

Kitt Beesroid

Robot

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Kitt’s afraid of spiders, but not much else.

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Kitt’s directive is to “save the world through process automation,” so he has a hero complex. We try to keep the superhero cape off of him, but somehow he ends up wearing it more often than not.

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You know, the awesome RoboSource team

Tyler Haire

Apprentice Software Engineer

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On Tyler’s 5th day at RoboSource, he got left behind when the team went out for lunch. He ran into the restroom, and when he came back out, the office was empty. But he handled it with amazing grace. That’s just how Tyler is: laid back and hard to ruffle.

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Tyler Haire dreams of living in a tiny home on wheels and exploring all of the National Parks. While he’s at the parks, he’ll rock climb and hike, then he’ll wheel on to the next park. Once he tires of the tiny house, Tyler plans to live in Europe. Tyler loves everything technology, including UI/UX, machine learning & AI, video games, augmented reality, and … really any cutting-edge hardware. Another interesting thing about Tyler? He has been creating an animated movie for his favorite album, “The Dark Side of the Moon.”

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Purdue University – BS in Computer Science (expected in 2022)

Purdue University – MBA (expected in 2023)

John Hasenmyer

Director of Strategic Technology

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Hass loves to greet everyone cheerfully in the morning. Often it’s “Top of the morning to ya!” in a bit of an Irish brogue. But last Friday it was “Guten morgen.” We all agreed that it was slightly less peppy than his usual greeting.

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John Hasenmyer is the spirit of RoboSource. He just is. He was the very first person founder Jason Beutler hired (even before his wife, Kendra!). But it’s more than that. Hass’ passion for mentoring young programmers comes through big time. O summer, he personally coached all 12 of our student apprentices, meeting with them occasionally to discuss career options and future thinking. And more often than not, you’ll find his chair pulled up to the desk of a less-experienced programmer, chatting about creative ways to solve a problem. Hass once spent six months hiking the entire Appalachian Trail with his wife. But his attempts to lead company backpacking trips have been only moderately successful. Programmers, after all, usually aren’t hired for their hiking ability.

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Taylor University — BA in Computer Science (1999)

John Khol

Software Engineer

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On John’s 7th day of work, we declared him lead dev on a data project. Luckily, he’s a fan of databases. Wide-eyed, he listened as we gave him all the details about the project and told him to get started. And then he rolled with it, like he does.

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John Khol says the only dog he ever liked acted like a cat. And he’s confident that Little Caesar’s pizza can’t be beat (not just for its price…). And he loves to visit museums and press souvenir pennies from the machines. He’s got a collection. John hails from DeWitt, Michigan, and came to Indiana for college at Taylor University. He has an older sister who is in grad school, studying molecular biology. John has a lot of favorites: for example, his favorite movie about bank-robbing surfers is Point Break.

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Taylor University — BS in Computer Science/Systems (2020)

Azerty Jaster-Droid

Robot

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Azerty hates the extreme heat. But she’ll deal with it anyway. Because, you know, she’s a robot.

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Azerty is nothing if not methodical. She likes to follow orders. She likes everyone else to follow orders. She isn’t thrilled when things don’t go according to plan. The plan, you see, is the most important thing to Azerty. That’s why you want her running your RPA projects. Nothing will cause Azerty a “meltdown” like a plan that isn’t being taken seriously.

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You know, the awesome RoboSource team

Michael Neeley

Director of FInance

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Two parts financial guru, one part parent to adopted teens, one part rock band bass player. Michael is definitely not what you expect when you think of “Director of Finance.”

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Michael is a problem solver. He loves nothing more than to be left alone to figure out a solution to a tricky puzzle. Michael simply doesn’t call attention to himself. HIs stress outlet (other than a deep love for music) is rock climbing or hiking or camping. Basically, anything outdoors. He and his wife also have a serious passion for helping teens through the foster system, in which their three adopted children spent most of their lives. But it’s not all older kids around the Neeley household – little Will is always around to keep things interesting!

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Ball State University – BS in Entrepreneurship (2006)

Daniel Northam

Software Engineer

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No one told us that Stephen Northam’s younger brother had applied for our open software engineer job, but once we noticed the last name, we wondered. “Yep,” Stephen said, “I was wondering when you’d notice that.” And that’s how we met Daniel.

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Daniel Northam is a TWIN! He has three older brothers, and a twin sister. Plus, he’s married and expecting his first baby. When Daniel isn’t busy getting ready for the baby or helping his wife run her photography business, he spends time making RPG dice for games like Dungeons and Dragons. Daniel loves tacos and juggling and was once a national champ in VEX Robotics. He also loves video games, because they make people laugh and bring them together. And laughter is something you have plenty of whenever Daniel is around. He just plain makes the office more fun.

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IUPUI – BS in Computer Science, minor in Game Design & Development

Stephen Northam

Software Engineer

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Stephen loves animals. His dog Luna is treated like a dear child. And he used to have a family of white rats. Occasionally, they would even make an appearance on a Zoom meeting.

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Stephen Northam takes our Figure-it-Out Gene Core Value seriously. He is driven to understand why something works the way it works, and he’s dogmatic in not stopping until it makes sense to him. Stephen came into RoboSource in an unusual way – he wasn’t part of an apprentice class, instead starting alone when no other apprentices were on site. When he started, there were no big training days or apprentice vlog. We just threw him in. And Stephen has been excelling ever since. We haven’t yet thrown down a challenge that Stephen won’t tackle fearlessly. And I doubt we ever will.

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Purdue University – BS in Computer Information Technology (2019)

Purdue University – MS in Computer Information Technology (2020)

Justin Powell

Software Engineer

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Justin was an Eagle Scout in high school. For his final project, he built bat boxes on high poles and placed them in local parks. But he’s not sure if any bats ever actually moved in.

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Justin Powell is a heads-down, ready-to-work programmer. But we’ve still managed to learn some things about him. Music is vital to Justin’s life. In high school, he was part of a competitive marching band, playing trumpet. Music continued to be important through college. Today, you’ll hear him listening to a variety of genres, but never country or rap. Justin likes to hang out with friends, but he’s also pretty happy having some time to himself.

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Taylor University – BS in Computer Science (2016)

Brett Ridoux

Business Development / Support

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In the mornings, Brett flits around the office, with a quick comment or question for each person. He doesn’t talk much about himself, though, so unless you asked, you’d never know that his favorite ice cream is Graeter’s Black Cherry Chocolate Chip.

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Underneath Brett’s cheerful exterior, you’ll find that life hasn’t been easy the past few years. His wife is a recent cancer survivor and continues to fight to keep the illness at bay. Those struggles combined with his son’s struggles with mental illness have taught Brett to take life one day at a time. But life has a lot of joy too, and Brett says that adopting his two boys has been the most meaningful thing that’s happened in his life, one that happened as a result of a direct call from God. When he isn’t hanging out with the family or building his tech network, Brett is a yard guy. He loves to landscape, watch birds, and relax in nature. He’s considering launching a “Bird Watching Guild” at RoboSource and adding bird feeders outside the office windows. THAT would be a whole new kind of education.

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Cornell University – Certificate in Digital Marketing (2017)

University of Tennessee – MBA in Marketing/Logistics (1998)

Indiana University – BA in History (1994)

Ben Thompson

Apprentice Software Engineer

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During Ben’s interview last winter, we asked him about a hard decision he’d made recently and to walk us through how he made it. “Well,” he said with a small smile, “I just asked my girlfriend to marry me, so that was a pretty big deal.”

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Ben Thompson can juggle. He can ride a unicycle. And he’s pretty darn good at Rubik’s Cube. Ben first got interested in computer science when he took an AP class in high school. After that, he was hooked. He has an older brother who is a software engineer, so it felt pretty natural to him. Ben has a special passion for algorithm design, and he likes chicken on his pizza and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups.

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Taylor University – BS in Computer Science (expected in 2023)

Morton Mega-Tech

Robot

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Morton is a troublemaker. It’s hard to get anything done when he’s around.

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Morton is programmed to understand humor, and he uses it mostly in the form of practical jokes. He’s the type to put plastic wrap on the toilet or mix up everyone’s laptops. You have to stay on your toes when Morton’s in the office!

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You know, the awesome RoboSource team

Bradley Vaal

Apprentice Software Engineer

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Bradley has spent the last five summers working at Holiday World, cleaning sidewalks. So we don’t have much competition for “best job ever.”

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It’s a story we’ve heard more than a few times before – Bradley Vaal got interested in programming because he played a lot of video games as a kid. Now he’s finding a deep passion for financial technology. Bradley’s a first-generation college student, and he says that working on real projects has given his education a massive boost. When he’s not studying, Bradley is the captain of the Ball State Ultimate Frisbee team. Athletics aren’t new to him – Bradley was a pole vaulter in high school!

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Ball State University – BS in Computer Science (expected in 2023)

Patric Welch

Director of Operations

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When looking for a new Business Analyst, we advertised it as a “Business Analyst Unicorn,” because we needed someone to do business analyst work PLUS wear several other part-time hats. When Patric came into work the first day? He was wearing a unicorn hat. And that pretty much tells you about Patric’s sense of humor … we’ve been laughing since day 1.

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Patric reads 3-4 books each month and listens to podcasts on his commute. He just loves to learn. Of course, one of his greatest educations has been in parenting – he and his wife have two young-adult sons (and a dog). Patric immerses himself in whatever the boys are into, be that marching band, indoor percussion, or soccer. If he doesn’t have events for the kids, he loves to watch horror movies, tinker with technology, binge watch Netflix, or take his wife out for a date. Unless, that is, his beloved Wisconsin Badgers are playing football or basketball – then that obviously takes priority!

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University of Wisconsin, Madison — BBA in Information Systems Analysis & Design