Kai Evans
SDM - Networking Services at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolKai Evans is a seasoned engineering leader with 17 years of hands-on experience and a 25-year trajectory in tech that began at a principal engineer level and evolved to CTO- and SDM-level roles. Currently leading Networking Services at AWS in Sydney, he has repeatedly bridged deep technical architecture with commercial and product strategy across roles at Atlassian, Compono, and as a startup CTO/founder. Kai specializes in architecting resilient, scalable platforms and translating CTO-level context into engineering teams that consistently deliver. His background includes independent systems engineering and a self-directed trading systems project, reflecting a penchant for complex, latency-sensitive systems beyond standard web stacks. He augments practical experience with executive and technical study at Cornell, Stanford (Machine Learning) and EPFL (Software Engineering), signaling a blend of leadership, ML literacy and formal engineering rigor. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who shifts fluidly between code, architecture and high-level product tradeoffs.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Executive Leadership Program, Executive Leadership Program at Cornell UniversityComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at EPFLMachine Learning, Machine Learning at Stanford University
Github Skills (200)
testing10
css-in-js10
styled-components10
acceptance-testing10
form-validation10
bluetooth10
javascript10
wireless10
keyboard10
tidy10
keyboard-layout10
codeceptjs10
bdd10
nightmare10
selenium-webdriver10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
rightjs/rightjs-ui
Jul 2009 - May 2012
Contributions:505 commits, 1 comment in 2 years 10 months
user-interfacejavascript
MadRabbit/Nake
Feb 2011 - Jan 2012
Contributions:13 commits in 11 months
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