Eva Short is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating scalable back-end systems and CI/CD tooling, currently working across Python microservices and cloud infrastructure in California. She has deep systems intuition and a track record of clarifying complex problems so teams can move faster, from rewriting caching layers to cutover Spanner migrations to optimizing ETL pipelines and AWS migrations. An active contributor to the Concourse open-source CI project, she improved the hijack UX between the fly CLI and backend and strengthened tests and maintainability in a Go codebase. Comfortable across DevOps, backend services, and data pipelines, she combines rigorous testing and assumption-checking with clear technical communication to get teams unstuck.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science, 4.0, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science, 4.0 at University of California, Berkeley
Concourse is a container-based continuous thing-doer written in Go.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:299 commits, 2 PRs, 76 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Eva primarily contributed to the Concourse CI/CD system's codebase, focusing on improving the functionality and reliability of the "hijack" feature, specifically, the interaction between the fly CLI and the backend. The commits focused on integrating the new hijack endpoint, allowing users to select a container. The commits also included adding new features, such as enabling users to add their own environment variables. The user also refactored and maintained code, as well as improved testing capabilities.
Contributions:98 commits, 95 pushes, 8 branches in 6 years 1 month
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