Evan Machnic
Lead Software Engineer at Optum
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolEvan Machnic is a Lead Software Engineer in Austin with 15 years of experience designing cloud-native infrastructure and web applications, currently shaping platform reliability at Optum. He brings deep DevOps and automation expertise—migrating on-prem systems to AWS, building Kubernetes deployments, and authoring Chef, CloudFormation, Terraform, and Packer workflows to streamline production delivery. His background includes hands-on platform work at Engine Yard and uShip where he built CI/CD pipelines, AMIs, and Chef server infrastructure, and he’s contributed to Engine Yard’s ey-cloud-recipes to improve deployment automation. A seasoned screencaster and podcast host, Evan pairs technical leadership with clear communication, mentoring teams through large migrations and microservice decompositions. Notably, he blends practical ops experience with developer tooling know-how, making him effective at both architecting systems and teaching others to operate them.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's Degree, Information Technology at Florida State University
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Github Skills (15)
chef-client10
configuration-management10
chef-solo10
automation10
automations10
cloud-infrastructure10
deploying10
ruby10
php9
nginx8
windows6
bundler6
vagrant6
ruby-on-rails6
cygwin6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
engineyard/ey-cloud-recipes
Mar 2012 - Sep 2013
A starter repo for custom chef recipes on EY's cloud platform. These are for reference, and do not indicate a supported status.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:24 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Evan primarily contributed to improving the automation and configuration management aspects of the `ey-cloud-recipes` repository. Their contributions include adding and modifying Chef recipes for various tasks, such as installing and configuring PHP, managing shared database configurations, and adjusting delayed job and resque recipes for Ruby 1.9 compatibility. These modifications suggest a focus on streamlining deployments and ensuring application compatibility within the Engine Yard cloud platform.
recipescookbookrecipechef-recipesstatus
railsinstaller/website
Jun 2012 - Dec 2019
RailsInstaller Website
Contributions:127 commits, 4 PRs, 16 pushes in 7 years 7 months
ruby-on-railsrailsruby
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