Evan Tobiesen
Lead Software Engineer, Spanish Growth Projects at Automattic
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolEvan Tobiesen is a Lead Software Engineer focused on Spanish growth projects at Automattic with six years of professional engineering experience and a background that uniquely spans petroleum engineering, entrepreneurship, and MarTech. He combines hands-on front-end expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript and PHP with leadership experience as an Engineering Manager delivering scalable growth and analytics features for WordPress.com. His open-source contributions to Automattic’s wp-calypso show a practical focus on user experience, social signup flows, and improving tracking/reporting—skills that inform data-driven product decisions. Based in Barcelona, he also ran a local coworking business and provided consulting services for a decade, bringing strong product intuition and operator grit. Comfortable shifting between coding and people leadership, he excels at turning growth hypotheses into reliable, production-ready systems. Evan’s prior technical roots in engineering and field roles give him an uncommon blend of analytical rigor and hands-on problem solving.
6 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Petroleum Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Petroleum Engineering at University of Stavanger
Spanish, Norwegian, English
Github Skills (7)
javascript10
analytics10
react10
wordpress9
s68
nodejs8
redux7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/wp-calypso
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
The JavaScript and API powered WordPress.com
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:171 reviews, 32 commits, 118 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Evan primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the WordPress.com project, evidenced by modifications to React components and JavaScript files within the client-side code. They worked on feature implementations, such as handling social signup flows and integrating user account age into the Fiverr logo maker links, indicating a focus on user experience and feature enhancement. Additionally, the user addressed page view analytics and device type identification, suggesting involvement in improving tracking and reporting.
apireactwordpressjavascriptes6
gmovr/gmovr
Sep 2022 - Jan 2025
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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