Mike Evans
Director Of Software Engineering at The Walt Disney Company
Greater Philadelphia United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Evans is a seasoned software engineering leader with over two decades of experience building and scaling mission-critical services for major media and consumer platforms. Currently Director of Software Engineering at The Walt Disney Company, he has previously led global identity and backend platforms at Comcast, driving multi-region AWS expansions and cutting cloud costs by half while managing teams of 30+ engineers and multiple managers. He excels at turning complex distributed systems into reliable, high-throughput services (XBO scaled to 20k TPS with sub-100ms SLOs) and building repeatable hiring and onboarding processes that rapidly grow capability. Known for blending hands-on prototyping with strategic roadmapping, he partners with executives to align technology investments to business outcomes. A history major by training, he brings a pragmatic, research-minded approach to problem solving and a track record of integrating acquired teams and capabilities into cohesive platforms.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BA, History, Middle Eastern History, BA, History, Middle Eastern History at Penn State University
Github Skills (68)
sdk9
ruby-client9
couchbase9
client-library8
parser8
ruby8
plug8
rails8
mvc7
rack7
compose7
feed7
html7
activerecord6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mje113/sideband
Feb 2013 - Jan 2015
Contributions:25 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 1 year 11 months
background-jobsseparatethreadjobsbackground
mje113/newark
Feb 2014 - Mar 2017
Newark: Pico Web Framework for Rack
Contributions:42 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 years 1 month
rackweb-frameworkrubypico
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