Quality Development
I'm a results-driven Senior Software Engineer dedicated to delivering high-impact, scalable web applications without compromising code quality or security. With a proven track record of leveraging modern tech stacks to accelerate product delivery, modernise legacy systems, and build seamless user experiences for industry-leading organisations.
About Me
Driven by continuous learning, I actively monitor emerging web standards, modern architecture trends, and industry leaders to continuously sharpen my technical skills. Beyond software development, I enjoy getting outdoors for hikes, and love building hands-on maker projects whenever time permits.
Eric Evans
Senior Software Engineer
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BHN/ Tango Card - Senior Software Engineer
April 2023 - Current
- Spearheaded a dedicated security task force to bring the core Tango product into full compliance with PCI SLAs.
- Orchestrated a major vulnerability remediation initiative, reducing critical and high security scan vulnerabilities on the React platform from over 300 to zero.
- Selected for an elite tiger team that successfully migrated Tango’s legacy authentication architecture to Auth0 under an aggressive deadline.
- Accelerated the front-end modernization strategy by rapidly rewriting the high-impact shopping cart module from Vue to React
- Investigated and resolved complex, high-priority defects across the frontend application layer, restoring core functionality and ensuring uninterrupted user workflows.
- Partnered with a select group of senior engineers to drive rigorous code review standards, enforcing continuous performance, security, and quality benchmarks.
- Served as Scrum Lead for the Lightning team for 2 years, establishing team velocity, guiding Agile practices, and aligning sprint execution with product milestones.
- Led a lean development team to architect and deliver an end-to-end physical bulk shipping feature in a few weeks to capture critical business demand.
- Traveled on-site to India to onboard, train, and mentor offshore engineering teams, establishing unified development workflows and aligning global standards for code quality and security.
- Led technical workshops on-site in India to accelerate overseas team integration and establish cross-functional alignment on core application architecture.
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Pluralsight - Software Engineer/ Team Lead
September 2021 - April 2023
- Engineereed high-throughput distributed systems by consuming and publishing real-time data streams utilizing Kafka and RabbitMQ.
- Led technical interviews, onboarded new hires, and actively mentored junior engineers to accelerate time-to-productivity and foster team growth
- Engaged in regular, high-impact pair programming sessions to drive consensus on system architecture, database schema design, and code quality.
- Partnered closely with Product Management to design and deliver a seamless, intuitive onboarding experience for Pluralsight authors.
- Re-engineered core payment architecture to successfully integrate and process transactions for newly acquired business entities.
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PXP - Lead Developer
September 2018 - September 2021
- Partnered with the Production Manager to architect and manage weekly development schedules, balancing resource allocation with project deadlines.
- Represented the engineering team in weekly client stakeholders meetings to align on business requirements, report project progress, and manage technical expectations.
- Spearheaded client-side architecture and development, taking complete ownership of core frontend codebases and complex user interfaces
- Mentored cross-functional team members, fostering technical growth, promoting engineering best practices, and raising the overall quality bar.
- Continuously researched and evaluated emerging web technologies, frameworks, and industry trends to keep the tech stack modern and efficient.
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Allen Communications - Tech Lead
January 2015 - September 2018
- Architected and delivered bespoke custom learning solutions tailored to complex client specifications while actively mentoring team members to elevate overall technical skills.
- Played a key role on the core engineering team responsible for designing and building a scalable, reusable React component library.
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ThomasArts - Developer
July 2014 - November 2014 --Contract
- Create sites based off of PSD designs.
- Maintain semantic code base
- Create sites in Wordpress or Drupal
Education
Salt Lake Community College
2011-2014
Visual Art/ Graphic DesignO'Reilly School Of Technology
2012
Introduction to PHPModern JavaScript Certification.
System Administration 1 - Bash Programming