Evan Anderson
Founder at Custcodian
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEvan Anderson is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 11+ years building cloud-native and DevOps-focused systems from Google to VMware and early-stage startups. He combines deep backend and infrastructure expertise with practical DevOps automation—evident in significant contributions to the Knative ecosystem (serving, eventing, docs and community tooling) and cert-manager, improving build/test pipelines, CI/CD and configuration automation. As a former Senior Staff Engineer and Principal Engineer, he’s driven architectural improvements, API refactors, and error-handling hardening at scale, while also polishing developer and user documentation. Now leading his own venture in the Greater Seattle area, he pairs systems-level thinking with hands-on coding and automation that reduces operational toil. A less obvious strength is his history of turning community governance and tooling needs into reproducible automation (e.g., OWNERS_ALIASES generation), showing a knack for bridging policy, process, and code.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Dartmouth College
Stackoverflow
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google-app-engine
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google-cloud-platform
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Github Skills (48)
kubernetes10
docker10
tls1210
testing10
cloudevents10
tls1310
dockers10
mtls10
event-driven10
automation10
certificate10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
libtls10
yaml10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
knative/community
Aug 2019 - Dec 2022
Knative governance and community material.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:272 reviews, 84 commits, 94 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Evan primarily focused on automating and improving the tooling within the Knative community repository. They contributed to the creation of an automation tool to generate OWNERS_ALIASES files, leveraging peribolos configuration data. Further contributions included updating the codegen script and addressing a bug related to the processing of numeric characters in group names. These efforts demonstrate a focus on process automation and configuration management within the project.
committeeknativeknative-authorsguidelinesmechanics
knative/eventing-contrib
Jan 2019 - Apr 2021
Event Sources
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 8 commits, 13 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Evan made substantial contributions to the Knative eventing-contrib repository, primarily focused on refactoring and improving error handling within the GCP PubSub source and other event delivery mechanisms. The work involved migrating code, updating dependencies, and modifying error messages to improve clarity. Additionally, the user addressed issues related to sink address resolution and event delivery failures.
cloudeventssourcesevent-driven
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