Evan Kuhn
Staff Software Engineer at Affirm, Inc.
- Role
- Senior Software Engineer at Affirm
- Location
- Lafayette, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Evan Kuhn
Detail-oriented software engineer with extensive experience in software development, DevOps, SRE, and Cloud Engineering. Highly collaborative, with excellent organizational skills. Produces high-quality technical solutions, as well as comprehensive documentation. Experience with: building scalable and fault tolerant systems; load testing and capacity planning; metrics and monitoring systems; cloud automation and configuration management; CI/CD systems; software development.
Experience
Senior Software Engineer
Dec 2017 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US
Platform Engineer:• Responsible for automation, deployments, metrics, monitoring, incident triage, etc.• Designed, implemented, and owned Affirm\'s solution for online schema migrations, via gh-ost. Executed migrations, created detailed documentation, and trained other engineers.• Owned capacity planning for Affirm\'s technical infrastructure. Produced a detailed process, including documentation, monitoring dashboards, and a spreadsheet, that allowed us to compute needed capacity based on current resource usage and projected traffic.• Owner of, and technical expert for, Affirm\'s Salt infrastructure, used for configuration management and, critically, for deployments. Produced extensive documentation, including troubleshooting guides, how-to\'s, etc. Troubleshot many errors, and suggested improvements to the infrastructure.• Along with two teammates, successfully delivered on an aggressive goal to stand up an entirely new copy of our tech stack in a new region (Canada) in two months. Immediately followed this by scaling our • Salt infra, app servers, and async workers to handle 30x traffic for Black Friday.• Participated in new engineer mentorship, technical interviewing panels, and 24/7 on-call rotation.
Education
Cornell University
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science
1998 — 2002
Cornell University
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Economics
1998 — 2002
Cornell University
M.Eng., Computer Science
1998 — 2003
Skills
- Ruby
- Event Driven Programming
- Metrics
- Open Minded
- Loyal
- Php
- Distributed Systems
- Windows
- Jekyll
- Devops
- Multithreading
- C++
- Personality
- Amazon Web Services (Aws)
- Icinga
- Graphite
- Listener
- Puppet
- Computer Science
- Databases
- Agile Methodologies
- Object Oriented Design
- High Impact
- Linux
- Unix
- Git
- Capacity Planning
- C
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