Evan Weaver

evan@cloudbur.st

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

Fauna. Berkeley, CA. 2011-present.

I started Fauna, a software-as-a-service startup, where I currently serve as CEO.

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.