Summary
Evan Crook is a senior software engineer with 12 years of experience building cloud-native data platforms and ETL systems, now focusing on data platform work at Thumbtack in Los Angeles. He has led end-to-end migrations from legacy processes to automated, scalable pipelines using tools like Prefect, Dask, PySpark, Airflow and AWS, and has strong MLOps experience including containerized deployments with Docker and Kubernetes. Evan has a track record of founding and scaling teams and infrastructures—having helped build terabyte-scale data platforms at Evidation and mentoring engineers as a technical lead at Indigov. He also brings practical systems programming experience, authoring a Go-based proxy service to enable enterprise adoption of OpenAI APIs. Comfortable translating stakeholder needs into production systems, Evan pairs rigorous data governance and privacy practices with a curiosity for experimenting at the intersection of data engineering and applied ML.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at The University of Edinburgh
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara
English, Wolof, Spanish