Chase Evans
Founder at Trustleast
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChase Evans is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and secure, cost-effective production platforms. He rose through backend and architecture roles at Whisper and a multi-year engineering career at Coinbase, culminating as a Senior Staff Engineer before launching Trustleast. Comfortable across industries and languages, he prefers Go and specializes in zero-to-one bootstrapping, operational security, and optimizing cloud spend. Based in Oakland and trained in EECS at UC Berkeley, he blends hands-on implementation with architecture-level thinking and a knack for pragmatic trade-offs. A detail that often surprises peers: he pairs deep systems expertise with a consistent focus on economics—designing systems to be both reliable and inexpensive to run.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Parallel Computing SaaS Databases HCI, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Parallel Computing SaaS Databases HCI at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (75)
test-kitchen10
terraform10
terraform-provider10
aws10
multithreading9
terraform-module9
rack9
server9
12-factor9
factor9
gfx8
infrastructure8
ruby8
deployer8
devops7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
chwevans/dotfiles
Mar 2016 - Jun 2022
Contributions:14 pushes in 6 years 3 months
trustleast/groupurl
Jul 2024 - Aug 2024
Reduce cardinality of URLs for analytics
Contributions:12 PRs, 9 pushes, 13 branches in 15 days
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