Nicholas Evans
CEO at QBench
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolNicholas Evans is a product-driven CEO and operator with 12+ years building and scaling B2B SaaS products, currently leading QBench, a configurable LIMS that accelerates lab operations. He combines hands-on engineering and design instincts—demonstrated by thousands of commits at Reverb and meaningful backend contributions to open-source Kafka tooling—with strategic experience as a partner at Southport Ventures. At Reverb and Etsy he wore many hats across product, UX, and engineering, driving experimentation practices that generated hundreds of millions in incremental revenue. Nicholas pairs technical depth (data science, backend systems, IoT tinkering) with a founder’s pragmatism from early-stage product work and hands-on lessons from family farm and construction roots. He also advises design education and helps portfolio companies operationalize software-driven growth. Based in Minneapolis, he focuses on mission-critical software that maps tightly to customer workflows and delivers measurable outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Design & Innovation, Master's Design & Innovation at Northwestern University
Stackoverflow
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15answers
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Github Skills (14)
kafka10
go10
sarama10
zookeeper10
html6
css6
drupal6
lazy-loading6
twitter6
content-length6
javascript6
php6
jquery6
histogram6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
wvanbergen/kafka
Jun 2014 - Jul 2014
Load-balancing, resuming Kafka consumer for go, backed by Zookeeper.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 15 days
Contributions summary:Nicholas contributed significantly to the `wvanbergen/kafka` repository, focusing on enhancements to the consumer group functionality. They implemented features to control and monitor the offset method and calculate the consumer's lag. The user also refactored the code by storing partition consumers as pointers and added a monitoring component for external oversight of the consumer group. These changes improved the consumer group's flexibility and monitoring capabilities.
golangkafka-consumerzookeeperlatencyload-balancing
manygrams/errbit
Jan 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 9 months
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