Rhys Evans
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRhys Evans is a pragmatic software engineer and technical leader with 15 years building resilient, high-performance web platforms and cloud-native backend systems. He blends hands-on full‑stack expertise—JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, React/Svelte, GraphQL and a wide range of storage and streaming technologies—with strong product thinking, having shipped large-scale DevOps tooling, observability platforms and migration programmes at the Financial Times. Rhys has led teams and departments through architecture, security and governance work (including a unified knowledge graph and GitHub enterprise SSO migration) and is a maintainer of the popular fetch-mock testing library. He favors maintainability and test-driven development over chasing trends, and has a track record delivering measurable performance and reliability gains (helping make FT.com one of the fastest news sites). Comfortable spanning product, people and code, he also brings an analytical background (first-class maths degree) and an uncommon mix of design-system, CDN/serverless and data-governance experience.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mathematics, 1st, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics, 1st at University of WarwickMasters, Political Communications, Masters, Political Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London
English, Welsh
Github Skills (11)
uitest10
moc10
open-source10
javascript10
os-development10
webapi10
polyfills10
chai10
api-design10
testing10
html9
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
Financial-Times/next-metrics
Jan 2015 - Jan 2019
A library that used to send metrics to Graphite
Contributions:44 releases, 143 commits, 69 PRs in 4 years 1 month
platforms-customer-productssendinggraphitecustomer-productsmetrics
Financial-Times/ft-poller
Nov 2014 - Oct 2017
Scheduled, asynchronous JSON fetching for Node.js applications
Contributions:9 releases, 42 commits, 18 PRs in 2 years 11 months
asynchronousnode-jsjavascriptfetchingplatforms-customer-products
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