Evan Machnic
Lead Software Engineer at Optum
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolEvan Machnic is a lead software engineer with 14 years of experience architecting cloud-native web applications and automated deployment pipelines. Based in Austin, TX, he currently leads software engineering at Optum, guiding scalable health-tech platforms. His background spans DevOps and platform engineering—from migrating on-prem to AWS, building Kubernetes deployments, and crafting Chef-based automation and CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, TeamCity, Terraform and CloudFormation. He has hands-on experience with microservices, .NET and Ruby, and has contributed to Engine Yard's EY cloud recipes to streamline deployments. An active communicator and community-builder, he hosts the Happy Munday Podcast and has produced screencasts and training materials around Docker, Ruby on Rails, and deployment strategies. His open-source and professional work reflects a knack for turning complex infrastructure challenges into reliable, auditable solutions.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's Degree, Information Technology at Florida State University
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Github Skills (15)
configuration-management10
chef-client10
chef-solo10
automation10
automations10
cloud-infrastructure10
deploying10
ruby10
php9
nginx8
vagrant6
bundler6
windows-76
ruby-on-rails6
cygwin6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
engineyard/ey-cloud-recipes
Mar 2012 - Sep 2013
A starter repo for custom chef recipes on EY's cloud platform. These are for reference, and do not indicate a supported status.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:24 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Evan primarily contributed to improving the automation and configuration management aspects of the `ey-cloud-recipes` repository. Their contributions include adding and modifying Chef recipes for various tasks, such as installing and configuring PHP, managing shared database configurations, and adjusting delayed job and resque recipes for Ruby 1.9 compatibility. These modifications suggest a focus on streamlining deployments and ensuring application compatibility within the Engine Yard cloud platform.
recipescookbookrecipechef-recipesstatus
railsinstaller/website
Jun 2012 - Dec 2019
RailsInstaller Website
Contributions:127 commits, 4 PRs, 16 pushes in 7 years 7 months
ruby-on-railsrailsruby
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