Summary
Evan Freed is a Site Reliability Engineer based in San Francisco with six years of hands-on experience building and operating large-scale cloud infrastructure. He has led teams and driven reliability at Elastic—managing 100,000+ containers, 10,000+ VMs, multi-cloud Terraform deployments across AWS/GCP/Azure/IBM, and helping achieve compliance like SOC2 and FedRAMP—and now applies that expertise at Teleport. Known for practical automation, he’s improved observability through automated dashboard/alert management and regional logging rollouts, and has deep operational experience in incident response and cross-region service expansion. Earlier roles in DBaaS and systems engineering give him strong foundations in databases (MongoDB, Elasticsearch), Linux/Unix operations, and customer-facing support. He combines technical leadership with a history of solving high-pressure, mission-critical problems and a track record of mentoring engineers while shipping secure, auditable systems.
6 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Management of Information Systems, B.A., Management of Information Systems at Cedarville University
English, Spanish