Evan Gilman
Creative Director
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEvan Gilman is a creative director and coffee industry specialist based in San Francisco with 13 years of experience blending product-focused creativity and hands-on operational leadership. He runs Royal Coffee and provides training and consulting across quality assurance, espresso techniques, and supply logistics, bringing deep domain expertise from roles at Blue Bottle and Equal Exchange. Unusually for a creative director, Evan also contributes to major open-source infrastructure projects—enhancing networking, service discovery, and security features in widely used tools like HashiCorp Nomad and Consul and SPIRE—demonstrating strong backend and DevOps skills. His work on WAN address translation, Consul service-check refinements, and SPIRE node resolver improvements shows an aptitude for solving nuanced distributed-systems problems. With a BA from the University of Washington and international ties through honorary study in Indonesia, he combines cultural curiosity with technical and operational rigor. Evan’s blend of storytelling, product development, and low-level systems contributions makes him a rare cross-disciplinary practitioner in both specialty coffee and cloud infrastructure.
13 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Bachelor of Arts (BA) at University of WashingtonHonorary, Honorary at Institut Seni Indonesia DenpasarCQI Q-Grading CourseNorth Beach Elementary
Indonesian, Thai, Chinese
Github Skills (35)
api-design10
consul10
go10
service-discovery10
dns10
grpc10
data-structure9
algorithm9
algorithms9
networking9
error-handling9
datastructures-algorithms9
data-structures9
docker8
database8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
spiffe/spire
Aug 2017 - Nov 2022
The SPIFFE Runtime Environment
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:400 reviews, 785 commits, 471 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Evan primarily worked on the node resolver plugin, adding support for retrieving information based on the attestation data type, as well as enabling the creation and management of join tokens. They updated the datastore interface and plugin to support the join tokens, and implemented the CreateEntryIfNotExists RPC for the registration API, enhancing the plugin's functionality. They also implemented a more robust error handling and logging strategy by checking and logging errors when accessing the node resolver, and also updated the configuration to handle different options.
runtimespifferuntime-environment
hashicorp/consul
Dec 2015 - Jul 2016
Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 15 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Evan's contributions focused on enhancing the Consul agent's functionality, particularly around service discovery and WAN address translation. They implemented a `translate_wan_addrs` configuration option, enabling the preference of WAN addresses in DNS lookups for remote datacenters. Additionally, the user modified the codebase to store and utilize WAN addresses within node registration and service discovery processes, which involved updates to multiple files related to agent configuration, DNS, and state management. They also added tests to validate the new WAN address translation features.
api-gatewayecsgolangcenterdistributed
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