Evan Kuhn
Staff Software Engineer at Affirm
Lafayette, California, United States
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Top SchoolEvan Kuhn is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building scalable, fault-tolerant systems and operating resilient cloud platforms, currently driving platform engineering at Affirm. He combines deep hands-on expertise in DevOps, SRE, CI/CD, configuration management (notably Salt), and online schema migrations with strong capacity planning, load testing, and monitoring practices. Evan has led large-scale regional rollouts and rapid traffic scaling projects—standing up a new region and preparing infrastructure for 30x Black Friday traffic—while producing thorough documentation and runbooks used across teams. He is a pragmatic mentor and on-call veteran who bridges developer needs and operational excellence, with a background spanning high-performance C/C++ services for ad serving to distributed metrics architectures. Based in Lafayette, CA, he brings a disciplined, detail-oriented approach that surfaces both technical improvements and practical operational processes.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Economics, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Economics at Cornell University
English
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Github Skills (31)
daemon6
collectd6
prometheus-exporter6
snmp6
server-side5
latency5
redis-client5
statistics5
amqp-client5
cpu-monitoring4
graphite4
linux4
graphite-carbon4
rrdtool4
python4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
EvanKuhn/webserver
Aug 2012 - Jul 2013
A simple webserver in C
Contributions:62 commits in 11 months
server-sidewebserver
yahoo/a10_monitoring
Jul 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:15 commits, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
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