Evan Sapienza
Senior Software Engineer at Netflix
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEvan Sapienza is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with eight years of experience building large-scale, data-driven systems for companies like Netflix and Spotify. He specializes in distributed processing, spatial technologies, and high-performance backend services, blending deep expertise in Spark/Hadoop, PostGIS/Mapbox, and AWS with practical RESTful API and .NET experience. At Spotify he powered datasets for voice analytics and linguistic grammars, and at Skyhook he led architecture for geospatial big-data products—demonstrating a rare combination of data engineering and spatial search know-how. Known for pragmatic, task-focused solutions, he favors clean, reliable designs that scale and perform under real-world constraints. Colleagues rely on him to bridge data, backend, and spatial domains while mentoring teams to ship production-grade software.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Boston University
English
Github Skills (19)
game-development9
game-engine8
godot7
open-source7
portaudio4
audio4
python4
snowball4
midi3
music3
bengali3
similarity3
manifold3
record-linkage2
machine-learning2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
esap120/scala-elo
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:24 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
esap120/spark-stemming
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
Spark MLlib wrapper for the Snowball framework
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
snowballspark-mlmachine-learningsparkspark-mllib
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