Evan Arnold
Chief Technology Officer at Linus Analytics
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEvan Arnold is a seasoned technology leader and founder with 15 years of experience turning ideas into delightful, adopted MVPs and scaling them into operational products. Currently CTO at Linus Analytics after founding LayerUp—an energy retrofit platform acquired in 2024—he blends hands-on engineering (notably Ruby on Rails and Python ETL) with product, data, and team-building expertise. He has a track record of recruiting and growing small cross-functional teams, breaking up monoliths, and shipping production ML features that unlock new product value. Based in Chicago, he pairs a liberal-arts science background from the University of Chicago with practical startup grit, and he’s unafraid of imperfection—his GitHub bio cheerfully admits “Unlimited typos.”
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
AB Biology; History & Philosophy of Science, AB Biology; History & Philosophy of Science at University of Chicago
Github Skills (188)
mvc10
background-worker10
ruby10
activerecord10
ruby-on-rails10
background-service10
geolocation10
html10
job-queue10
queue10
resque10
rails10
asynchronous-tasks10
rgeo10
job-scheduler9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
SnapDocs/shortener
Mar 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 branch, 5 comments in 2 years 5 months
jjdegruijter/ospats-plus
Dec 2020 - Jun 2023
A Julia package for farm-scale soil carbon auditing
Contributions:2 PRs in 2 years 6 months
julia-packagesoil-carbonscalefarmjulia
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