Evan Cooper
Head Of Engineering at Whale
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEvan Cooper is a Head of Engineering with a decade of experience turning ambiguous product goals into scalable front-end architectures, currently leading engineering at Whale after principal roles at Stackpoint Ventures and senior front-end leadership at AWS and Wayfair. A self-taught developer who began with Khan Academy and CodeAcademy, he progressed from launching client sites and a webcam fitness startup to directing large-scale React/Redux projects, TDD practices, and frontend learning programs used across organizations. He combines hands-on prototyping and production architecture—spanning cloud infra, APIs, and interfaces—with recruiting and mentoring to seed healthy long-term engineering cultures. Notably, he thrives in both early-stage buildouts and scaling phases, routinely stepping in as the first builder, then recruiting and handing off sustainable engineering leadership. Based in Boston, he pairs military-honed discipline and teaching instincts with pragmatic product focus to deliver reliable, testable user experiences.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Communication and Media Studies, Bachelor's degree, Communication and Media Studies at UMass Boston
Github Skills (49)
javascript10
css10
frontend10
react10
facebook9
typescript9
enzyme9
preact9
codesandbox9
gatsbyjs9
pace8
backend8
podcast8
nodejs8
testing8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
runtime-rundown/podcast-site
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Powering the runtime rundown podcast site
Contributions:7 reviews, 90 commits, 12 PRs in 5 months
runtimerubypodcast
Cooperbuilt/blog-with-cms
Jul 2019 - Sep 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 80 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 2 months
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