Evan Hicks
Senior Developer at Sentry (sentry.io)
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolEvan Hicks is a Senior Developer based in Toronto with 12 years of experience building high-throughput, resilient backend systems and responsive frontends across industries from healthcare to ad tech. He’s fluent in Go, Python, Node.js, PHP and JavaScript and has applied architectural patterns like DDD and CQRS to design HIPAA-compliant APIs, event-driven feeds, and automation platforms. Evan has worked at scale—designing systems that handled hundreds of thousands of requests per second with sub-100ms latencies—and led teams in real-time bidding environments. At Sentry he contributed to the back-end Snuba query engine, improving debugging and metrics handling for a widely-used error and performance monitoring tool. Known for migrating legacy codebases to modern async patterns and shipping pragmatic instrumentation, he blends deep systems thinking with product-focused engineering. He’s a builders’ engineer who still enjoys writing libraries and small client-side tools that make integrations easier for customers.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate Diploma, International Baccalaureate Diploma at Upper Canada CollegeOntario Secondary Schoolfor Bachelor of Computer Science Graduate, 2011
Computer Science, for Bachelor of Computer Science Graduate, 2011
Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (7)
python10
back-end-development10
sni10
metric10
sna10
query-optimization9
testing8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
getsentry/sentry
Dec 2019 - Dec 2022
Developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:711 reviews, 160 commits, 426 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Evan primarily contributed to the back-end infrastructure, focusing on Sentry's Snuba query engine. They modified code related to Snuba calls, including adding parameters for debugging and improving the handling of consistent flags. Additionally, the user fixed a test and addressed code related to metrics, like http_error_rate, across transactions and spans. The changes suggest involvement in performance monitoring and data analysis.
monitorpythonsentrydjangoerror-monitoring
getsentry/snuba-sdk
Dec 2020 - Dec 2022
SDK for generating SnQL queries for Snuba
Contributions:212 reviews, 105 commits, 234 PRs in 2 years
queriessdktag-production
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