Engineer Software

Evan Weaver

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OBJECTIVE

I'm currently working on my own startup and not interested in employment

inquiries. However, I'm considering independent board memberships at small

technology companies in Silicon Valley or elsewhere.

I am not seeking to make or receive any unsolicited investments.

PROVEN LEADERSHIP IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

I am a software engineer and manager, living in San Francisco. As an engineer, I

specialize in performance analysis and web scalability. As a manager, I focus on

team-building and delivering software in limited-resource environments--a kind

of human performance engineering.

I've designed, built, and maintained server-side software at all levels of

scale, including distributed databases, caching architectures, VM garbage

collectors, object mappers, and domain-specific business functions. I've

developed practical, innovative algorithms that were later validated by academic

research.

I have recruited and hired dozens of candidates, negotiated and closed

multi-million dollar business deals, reorganized teams, mentored staff facing

career and personal issues, rescued other managers' projects, and led "all hands

on deck" crisis responses to successful completion.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Management:

- Sourcing, recruiting and closing candidates

- Crisis leadership

- Mitigating speculative project risk

- Building collaborative, pragmatic, and transparent company cultures

- Legal aspects of software development and startups

- Negotiation

Technical:

- Performance analysis

- System architecture

- Web scalability and caching

- Distributed databases

- MySQL optimization

- Ruby on Rails

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Twitter. San Francisco, CA. 2008-2011.

I began my career at Twitter as a software engineer, and quickly progressed to

increasingly challenging positions in engineering leadership.

Architect. 2011.

As the most senior technical member of the company, I worked directly on

mission-critical projects and helped other teams with engineering strategy.

- Increased performance of the Ruby garbage collector by 10x

- Designed new server-side HTML caching architecture, which successfully

launched after I left

- Helped raise the profile of Twitter Engineering for recruiting purposes

Manager of Infrastructure, Storage, and Performance. 2010-2011.

With minimal guidance, I found my way as a personnel manager and built

several world-class teams.

- Grew my department from 7 to 25 engineers in one year

- Delivered scalable Tweet storage as a service

- Led 2 cross-functional crisis teams

Infrastructure Team Technical Lead. 2009-2010.

As technical lead, I continued to tackle all of Twitter's hardest

engineering challenges and developed my leadership skills.

- Delivered scalable timeline storage

- Healed cultural divide between operations and engineering teams

Member of Technical Staff. 2008-2009.

Taking a pay cut to come work at a risky startup, I immediately became

involved in the mission-critical scalability and performance work that would

consume Twitter for the next 2 years.

- Saved the company by decreasing cost-per-transaction by 98%

- Scaled the API

CBS Interactive. San Francisco, CA. 2006-2008.

I was a software engineer in the Lifestyle group at CBS Interactive, where I

first cut my teeth on high-scale Ruby on Rails websites.

Senior Software Engineer. 2006-2008.

- Architected and launched a total rewrite of UrbanBaby.com

- Acted as lead developer on CHOW.com after the original team left

Other positions held: Founder, Cloudburst, 2006-present. Enterprise Resource

Management Consultant at SAP AG, Wilmington, DE, 2005-2006. Research Assistant,

Oceanography Department, Imperial College London, 2004. Research Assistant,

Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Delaware, 2001.

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Computer Science, University of Delaware. 2003-2008.

Bachelor of Arts with honors. Double major in Computer Science and Philosophy;

minor in Creative Writing. University of Delaware. 2001-2006.

HONORS

Keynote speaker at QCon Beijing and QCon Tokyo. 2011.

Nominated for a European Commission Ph.D. bursary. 2004.

PERSONAL

I like cats, liquor, and snowboarding.

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