Evan Cordell
Software Engineer at authzed
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolEvan Cordell is a seasoned software engineer with 17 years of experience building reliable back-end systems and deployment pipelines, now based in New York and currently at Authzed. He has deep expertise in cloud-native and operator ecosystems, contributing to high-impact open-source projects like OpenShift, Operator Framework, and SpiceDB where he improved test reliability, wrote data loaders, and hardened database and key-rotation logic. At Red Hat and CoreOS he focused on operator lifecycle, CI/CD and DevOps refinements—work that directly improved automated deployments and reduced flakiness in conformance tests. Evan blends pragmatic engineering with a security-minded approach, having implemented repository initialization and key rotation features in Notary and schema/index fixes in authorization storage. He pairs a mathematics background from Tulane with a knack for untangling timing/race issues in distributed systems, often preferring small surgical refactors that yield outsized reliability gains. Colleagues rely on him for steady, behind-the-scenes improvements that make complex systems demonstrably more robust.
17 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts (LSMSA)BS, Mathematics Major, German Minor, BS, Mathematics Major, German Minor at Tulane University
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Github Skills (41)
kubernetes10
docker10
sqlite10
postgresql10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
testing10
build-system10
go-testing10
dockers10
cicd10
release-management10
automation10
go10
openshift10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
operator-framework/operator-registry
Oct 2018 - Apr 2021
Operator Registry runs in a Kubernetes or OpenShift cluster to provide operator catalog data to Operator Lifecycle Manager.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 47 reviews, 161 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Evan implemented a basic loader to ingest CSV and bundle data into a SQLite database. This involved creating the core functionality for the loader and the associated database structure. Furthermore, the user refactored the existing store by adding a new storage abstraction layer. The user also appears to have added package and channel loading functionality to enable data ingestion into the database.
lifecycleoperator-lifecycle-managergrpcopenshiftoperator
operator-framework/operator-lifecycle-manager
Sep 2017 - Aug 2021
A management framework for extending Kubernetes with Operators
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:67 reviews, 1184 commits, 477 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Evan's commits show a focus on improving the operator-lifecycle-manager repository's deployment pipeline and the automated deployment process. The user was involved in refactoring the existing build pipeline, which involved making it easier to use as well as updating and adding new tools. The user also worked on maintaining and updating the existing deployment setup.
kubernetes-operatorsoperator-sdkkubernetes-applicationsk8s-operatoroperator
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