Resume of Evan Weaver

evan@cloudbur.st

I am a software engineer specializing in performance analysis and web 
scalability. I have recently been working mostly in Ruby and C. 

I keep a popular technical blog at http://blog.evanweaver.com/.

Employment

January 2010 to present
Manager of Infrastructure at Twitter, Inc., San Francisco, CA.

May 2008 to January 2010
Infrastructure Team Technical Lead at Twitter, Inc., San Francisco, CA.
- Saved the company by optimizing performance up to an acceptable level
- Decreased cost-per-transaction by 98% in one year
- Drove adoption of iterative development methods

November 2006 to May 2008
Senior Software Engineer at CNET Networks, Inc., San Francisco, CA.
- Lead architect on UrbanBaby, an archived real-time chat for parents
- Lead developer on CHOW, an online food magazine and forum
- Introduced Agile planning methods

October 2006 to present	
Founder of Cloudburst, LLC, a software consultancy.
- Performance consulting for clients such as Project Playlist, TuneCore and 
Frogmetrics

January 2006 to October 2006	
Enterprise resource management consultant at TechniData America, LLC, 
Wilmington, DE. Compliance for Products group.
- Support for enterprise clients such as Molex and Tesoro
- Rapid prototyping of web application demos

May 2004 to August 2004	
Research assistant for Professor J. D. Woods, CBE, Oceanography, Imperial 
College London. Plankton simulation project.
- Extensive Java/Swing development
- Introduced source control to the project build process

Education

February 2003 to May 2008	
Master of Science in Computer Science, University of Delaware, Newark, DE. 
Simultaneous with B.A.

September 2001 to June 2006	
Bachelor of Arts with honors. Double major in Computer Science and Philosophy; 
minor in Creative Writing. University of Delaware, Newark, DE.

Open source

July 2006 to present	
Publication and community support of Ruby projects BleakHouse, Interlock, 
Memcached.gem, Mongrel, Peep, Ultrasphinx, Allison, and others.

May 2007 to present	
Patches contributed to Libmemcached, Ruby on Rails, Kestrel, and others.

Honors

March 2009
Session speaker at QCon London.

May 2008
Winner of a Ruby Heroes award, presented at RailsConf.

May 2007
Session speaker at RailsConf.

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

Skills

Languages
Ruby, C, Perl, Python, JavaScript, Java, some Scala.

Software packages
Memcached, Sphinx, SWIG, Git, Subversion, Valgrind, Apache, MatLab, Xen.

Databases
MySQL, Tokyo Cabinet, PostgreSQL, SQLite.

Operating systems
Linux, OS X, Windows.