Evan Powell
Senior Director Of Platform Architecture
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolEvan Powell is a Senior Director of Platform Architecture based in Austin with 12 years of experience building and leading teams that deliver cloud, virtualization, and distributed systems at enterprise scale. He combines a strong academic foundation (MS in Computer Science from UT Austin) with hands-on delivery—bootstrapping startups, designing private-cloud automation, and taking an experimental SaaS from zero to production in a month. Known for pragmatic leadership, Evan has preserved full developer retention through an acquisition and served as the primary technical liaison for high-profile customers and investors. He excels at bridging product, operations, and engineering priorities, driving DevOps practices, automation, and configuration-as-code across complex OpenStack and virtualized environments. Quietly versatile, he’s comfortable moving between low-level provisioning systems and strategic architectural guidance, making him effective both as a coder and as an executive.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor of Science Computer Science Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Science Computer Science Applied Mathematics at New Mexico State University
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wifi
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Github Skills (60)
docker10
uniform10
linux10
terraform10
single-source10
packer10
zenoss10
vagrant10
docker-registry9
wifi9
harbor9
jenkins-plugin8
kubernetes7
jenkins-api-plugin7
java7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
epowell/packer
Oct 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
platformslinuxpackerdockermachine-images
epowell/python-foreman
May 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 3 months
apipythonpython-wrapperforeman-apiforeman
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