Evan Reeves

Evan Reeves

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Engineering Management
Netherlands

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  • BOL
    Head of Tech Enabling
    BOL
    Dec 2024 - Current (1 year 11 months)
    The mission of this team is to help support and accelerate delivery of bol's most impactful objectives and initiatives with a specific focus on the warehousing, logistics, fintech and marketing capabilities . In this role I lead a team that is a mix of staff engineers, site reliability engineers, product/service delivery managers, and project managers. My role is help identify, organize, and deploy the team towards helping with the most impactful initiatives. This includes topics like adoption of domain driven design, simplifying our microservice landscape, application of AI and data science practices to unlock business value, and upgrades to warehousing infrastructure and support systems. Under supervision from our IT Director I work with
  • BOL
    Engineering Manager
    BOL
    May 2023 - Dec 2024 (1 year 8 months)
    In this role I was Engineering Manager of around 20 people across three separate platform engineering teams who are responsible for providing foundational tools for bol's engineering teams to deploy and maintain their applications in the cloud and self-design data center. The three teams had various product scope - one responsible for compute resource availability in the cloud (i.e. multiple GKE clusters), proprietary resource declaration tool, and bol's internal observability platform (Grafana, Prometheus, Elastic, Logstash, Kibana). My responsibilities as Engineering Manager - Responsible for delivery of our product roadmap. This means improving our ways of working (scrum, kanban) and aligning with Product Managers and Group Product Manag
  • Dott
    Head of Engineering
    Dott
    Jan 2022 - Apr 2023 (1 year 4 months)
    I work across multiple cross-functional software engineering teams that produce, maintain and improve Dott's iOS (Swift, RxSwift) and Android (Kotlin, Reactive) applications as well as many of the backend services (Typescript service-oriented-architecture on GCP) that allow Dott to offer millions of rides a year to users throughout Europe. My goals as Senior Engineering Manager - Ensure that we develop and deliver stable and maintainable services and products - Create cohesion, consistency and community within the engineering teams - Streamline and simplify communication where necessary - Implement processes to holistically improve our teams - Find ways for everybody to learn on the job and grow their skills Examples of what I do on a weekl
  • Dott
    Engineering Manager
    Dott
    Jun 2020 - Oct 2022 (2 years 5 months)
  • Opal
    Engineering Manager
    Opal
    Jan 2018 - May 2020 (2 years 5 months)
    In this role I act as a technical lead for my team, a hiring manager to expand our team, and a personnel manager. This role has been critical for the success of Opal. With the introduction of the EM (Engineer Manager) role at Opal we were able to drastically increase the rate at which we shipped software while improving overall stability, usability and features. I primarily act as a technical leader for my team. My day to day involves helping to architect new features and required changes to the platform. I am responsible for helping to communicate the decisions to my team, to other members of the product team, and to other external stakeholders within the org. I am also a hiring manager for my team. I regularly screen and interview candida
  • Opal
    Senior Backend Engineer
    Opal
    Dec 2015 - Jan 2018 (2 years 2 months)
    In this role I hlped to support and grow the Opal platform as a senior software engineer. Maintain and Improve - much of my time as a Senior Backend Engineer was spent maintaining and improving the overall stability and functionality of the overall platform. Leveraging my many years of production experience in server side engineering in Ruby I was able to quickly and effectively fix many defects on the platform while raising the overall code quality and stability of the platform. My involvement was critical for the stability and usability of the platform. Add and Extend - I was involved in many feature additions to the Opal platform. This required me to navigate and understanding existing systems and architectures as well as architect new f
  • L
    Lead Platform Engineer
    Aug 2013 - Oct 2015 (2 years 3 months)
    Transitioned from senior software engineer to lead platform engineer. Responsible for managing, growing and optimizing Chirpify's engineering team through our Series A round. Scaled from MVP to enterprise platform. Assisted in moving from a handful of dedicated VPS servers to on-demand cloud services (read: Amazon Web Services) where our application had to scale to meet the demand of thousands of concurrent user interactions in non-predictable patterns across a variety of networks and disparate data sources. Introduced better software design processes. Helped to introduce processes to ease the burden of software development. This included version control pull requests, code reviews and critiques, continuous integration servers, adherence to
  • U
    Full Stack Engineer
    Upstart Labs
    Aug 2011 - Sep 2012 (1 year 2 months)
    Worked as a senior level software engineer on a variety of languages and platforms. Helped to provide support for writing code for MVP, refactoring and bugfixes for existing code, and support for deployments. Worked mostly with Ruby and Rails applications, gaining experience in this language and frameworks especially in the form of testing and the dark art of metaprogramming.
  • R
    Ruby Engineer
    Mar 2011 - Aug 2011 (6 months)
    I was brought in as a contractor with senior level experience in programming Ruby to help development of a Rails application to modernize and bring a UTi presence to the web. Coordinated development with offshore teams Worked with a team of project managers to help coordinate objectives, deliverables and schedules for a sizeable offshore development team working in parallel during off-hours. Introduced better tools to engineers gave tutorials, code reviews and mentored other developers in the Ruby language, most of whom were coming from a Java background. Helped the team move to virtual machines for development to gain many lost man hours fighting OSS difficulties on Windows systems.
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  • University of Michigan-Dearborn
    bachelor, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics
    University of Michigan-Dearborn
    Jan 1999 - Jan 2005 (6 years 1 month)
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