Jon Evans
Principal Engineer, Data
East Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJon Evans is a Principal Engineer specializing in high-scale, low-latency backend and data systems with 10+ years of experience building resilient microservices in the AWS ecosystem. He has led and architected core backend services for Fortnite at Epic Games, focusing on data ingestion, transformation, discovery and XP systems using Kafka, Kubernetes, OpenSearch and Terraform. Tool-agnostic but rooted in modern .NET, Jon combines hands-on development with team leadership to deliver durable, maintainable platforms under high pressure. He excels at parachuting into complex problems to bring clarity, momentum and pragmatic architectural decisions across business domains. Prior roles at Hudl, Monzo and Mediatonic show a pattern of shipping production services, prototyping platform features and owning end-to-end systems. Based in East Hampshire, he balances deep technical craft with a bias for operational simplicity and continuous learning.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computing, BSc Computing at Canterbury Christ Church UniversityHistory, History at Bexleyheath Sixth FormCS50 Introduction to Computer Science, CS50 Introduction to Computer Science at Harvard University Extension School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (91)
nuget10
halo10
websocket10
cryptocurrency10
xbox10
dotnet10
exchange10
api10
rest10
android10
endpoints10
csharp10
wrapper10
binance10
rabbitmq9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
glitch100/BinanceDotNet
Oct 2017 - Dec 2021
Official C# Wrapper for the Binance exchange API, with REST and WebSocket endpoints
Contributions:3 releases, 3 reviews, 104 commits in 4 years 2 months
exchangeendpointsapi-wrapperwebsocket-endpointexchange-api
hudl/registrator
Dec 2018 - May 2021
Service registry bridge for Docker with pluggable adapters
Contributions:44 commits, 22 PRs, 37 pushes in 2 years 5 months
service-registrydocker-machinebridgedockeradapters
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