Evan Tahler
Head Of Engineering at Arcade.dev
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEvan Tahler is a seasoned engineering leader with 15 years of experience building scalable back-end systems, developer tools, and data pipelines from startup to enterprise. Currently Head of Engineering at Arcade.dev, he leads teams focused on safe LLM/tool execution and runtime infrastructure, after guiding Sync Foundations and connector platforms at Airbyte. A hands-on engineer and founder, Evan created the Actionhero Node.js framework and contributes to well-known open-source projects like elasticsearch-dump and Airbyte, demonstrating deep expertise in connectors, job orchestration, and reliability. His background spans founding CTO roles, product leadership at Voom (Airbus A^3), and platform operations at TaskRabbit, giving him a rare blend of product, infra, and go-to-market experience. Based in San Francisco and trained at Carnegie Mellon, he pairs practical system design with community-driven open-source work—and once joked he'd be a late-night talk show host, hinting at a wry, public-facing curiosity.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MET Entertainment Technology, MET Entertainment Technology at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
3,246reputation
1.1mreached
47answers
7questions
elasticsearch
top-5%
redis
top-5%
Github Skills (38)
apim10
javascript10
data-pipelines10
python10
api-design10
amazon-elasticsearch10
elasticsearchquery10
api10
aws-elasticsearch10
elasticsearch10
data-pipeline10
data-integration10
elasticsearch-api10
data-engineering9
redis9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
elasticsearch-dump/elasticsearch-dump
Dec 2013 - Apr 2018
Import and export tools for elasticsearch & opensearch
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:46 releases, 261 commits, 129 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Evan primarily contributed to the core functionality of the `elasticsearch-dump/elasticsearch-dump` repository. Their work included modifying the default query to return more data, implementing custom transports for input and output, and fixing bugs related to the mapping creation process. They also updated the logging mechanisms and error handling, contributing to the overall stability and usability of the tool.
exportimport-and-exportjavascriptdockeropensearch
airbytehq/airbyte
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
The leading data integration platform for ETL / ELT data pipelines from APIs, databases & files to data warehouses, data lakes & data lakehouses. Both self-hosted and Cloud-hosted.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Integration Engineer
Back-end Developer & Integration EngineerContributions:1675 reviews, 170 commits, 726 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Evan contributed to both the core functionality and integration aspects of the Airbyte platform. They implemented and enhanced features for data connectors, specifically focusing on adding new sources and improving existing ones, notably the addition of the "Faker" source. The user also addressed schema parsing issues and made substantial changes to the codebase related to stream state and the overall data processing pipeline. Their work demonstrates a solid understanding of data integration principles and connector development.
operationpythondataintegration-platformdata-warehouse
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