Chris Evans
Co-founder And Field CTO at incident.io
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Evans is a seasoned software leader and founder with a decade of experience building platform and reliability engineering teams, currently serving as Co-founder and Field CTO at incident.io in San Francisco. He previously led platform and reliability at Monzo, contributing directly to open-source incident tooling that integrates Slack and PagerDuty for real-time incident reporting. Chris blends hands-on backend development with product leadership—moving from technical product owner roles to CTO-level strategy—and has a track record of shipping pragmatic, scalable operational tooling. Trained in computer science and mathematics at the University of Bristol, he pairs rigorous technical foundations with a knack for improving on-call and incident workflows that reduce noise and accelerate resolution.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at University of Bristol
Github Skills (12)
incident-response10
slack-api10
python10
incident-management10
django10
api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
api-rest9
pagerduty8
githubaction-workflow7
github-ci7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
monzo/response
May 2019 - Jun 2020
Monzo's real-time incident response and reporting tool ⚡️
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 58 commits, 79 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Chris contributed to the development of Monzo's incident response tool. They focused on enhancing the Slack integration, specifically by enabling incident reporting and editing directly within Slack using dialogs. The user implemented features for updating incident summaries and impacts and integrated the tool with PagerDuty for escalation. Furthermore, they addressed minor bug fixes and improved overall notification behavior.
incident-managementincident-responsereportingreporting-toolslack-bot
evnsio/grav
Feb 2017 - Jan 2018
Simple Docker image running Grav CMS with Nginx
Contributions:17 commits, 15 pushes, 4 tags in 11 months
nginxcmsdocker-imagebackground-servicedocker
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