Keith Szot

Keith is the geek-in-residence behind Esper’s platform evangelism, bringing clarity, curiosity, and deep technical chops to the world of dedicated device management. He’s on a mission to help OEMs, developers, and enterprise IT teams rethink what’s possible at scale — whether that means migrating from legacy platforms, flipping fleets, or building something completely bespoke. Keith’s journey spans decades of platform innovation. Before joining Esper, he led product at a developer tools startup acquired by Symantec, then spent years at Microsoft working on MSDN, CryptoAPI, Windows CE, and Windows Mobile. He’s coded for everything from PDP-11s to TRS-80s, but he’s still happiest when staging an OTA that Just Works™