Summary
Evan Gatchell is a freelance software engineer based in the Atlanta metro area with 11 years of experience delivering production software across insurance, retail, healthcare, and tech services. He has held progressive engineering roles at companies including Change Healthcare, Asurion, Walmart, Travelers, and Optum, and now consults independently to solve product and platform challenges. Comfortable across the stack, Evan combines practical systems thinking with a curiosity-driven approach honed from diverse enterprise environments. He enjoys learning new technologies and translating complex requirements into reliable, maintainable code—skills sharpened while moving between large teams and fast turnaround contracts. Outside of work he’s an avid traveler and hiker, traits that reflect a preference for exploration and hands-on problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Chemistry, Chemistry at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU)
English, Spanish