Summary
Evan Zeller is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable, observable, and automated systems, currently contributing at Nexla from Durham, NC. He has a strong track record designing and delivering high-throughput data pipelines—at Virtana he reduced processing time 31x for cloud billing analytics handling 100M+ records daily—and routinely owns on-call incident lifecycle and public communications. Comfortable across the stack, Evan has implemented containerized Java and Go microservices, CI/CD for 20+ repositories, AWS Lambda, and large Terraform deployments while driving API contracts and cross-team design. He brings a holistic, rigorous approach to estimation, planning, documentation, testing, and mentorship, and has commercialized open-source SDN controllers with customer-facing deployments. Motivated by using software for social progress, he blends deep operational discipline with a penchant for community engagement and career mentorship.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of Kentucky