Evan Closson
Chief Technology Officer at Prognos Health
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolEvan Closson is a hands-on Chief Technology Officer based in New York with over a decade leading engineering teams and scaling data-driven systems. He specializes in large-scale data processing with Spark/Scala, serverless and microservices architectures, and brings deep legacy expertise across .NET, Ruby on Rails, C/C++ and full-stack web platforms. At Prognos Health he advanced from VP of Engineering to CTO, blending technical leadership with product-focused delivery for healthcare data. Evan favors flat, distributed teams and pragmatic outsourcing to accelerate velocity while maintaining technical quality and cost discipline. Beyond enterprise systems he’s run a small business for over a decade, an experience that informs his budgeting and operational instincts. Evan’s background in graphics and physics-based programming gives him a unique systems-thinking perspective when tackling performance and architecture challenges.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Stony Brook University
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Github Skills (44)
itext9
aws8
terraform7
rollupjs7
helper-methods7
pdf-generation6
secrets-manager6
scalatest6
pdftk6
pdf6
sbt6
amazon-web-services6
terraform-provider6
scala6
ruby6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
prognoshealth/awsutils
Aug 2020 - Sep 2024
Commonly used aws utilities...
Contributions:3 reviews, 7 PRs, 16 pushes in 4 years 1 month
commonlyamazon-web-servicesaws-cliaws
prognoshealth/docker
Feb 2019 - Apr 2021
Public Docker files.
Contributions:2 PRs, 13 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 2 months
containersdockerfiledocker-imagekitchendocker-files
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