Will Evans

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Principal Engineer at Corvid Software · Distributed databases

Corvid Software
Dallas, TX · CT (UTC-6)
12+ years experience
Boston University
English, Arabic
Open to work
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Overview

Based in Dallas. I work on distributed databases at Corvid Software. Brought on-call pages for storage down from 17 a week to 2. Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 568ms to 103ms. Most at home with RocksDB and Raft. I coach a junior basketball team.

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Slower in the last week of each quarter

Skills
C++consensusincident responseRocksDBRustRaft
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 3 months

Staff Software Engineer roles in climate tech - Dallas or remote

Target roles
Staff Software Engineer
Level
Staff / Principal
Industries
Developer tools, Consumer apps
Work mode
Remote
Available
60 days notice
Work authorization
Authorized to work in the TX
What I'm looking for
Hands-on work on incident response with room to mentor.
Not interested in
Pure people management

16 years in distributed databases. Strongest at RocksDB and consensus. Available immediately.

Dallas, TXconsensusrocksdbraft
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Experience

  1. Principal Engineer
    Nov 2024 - Present
    Corvid Software · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
    • Led or co-led 32 investments, 3 of them now at Series B or later.
    • Previously an operator for 6 years before investing.
    • Sit on 4 boards.
  2. Engineering Manager
    Jun 2023 - Nov 2024
    Qualcomm · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
    • Reduced cloud spend on storage by 22% in two quarters.
  3. Senior Software Engineer
    Aug 2020 - Jun 2023
    Nvidia · 2 yr 10 mo · Contract · Dallas, TX
    • Brought on-call pages for storage down from 33 a week to 4.
  4. Software Engineer
    Jun 2018 - Aug 2020
    Walmart · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
    • Brought on-call pages for storage down from 22 a week to 3.
  5. Senior Software Engineer
    Jan 2015 - Jun 2018
    HP · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
    • Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 548ms to 176ms.
    • Led the migration of 76 services to incident response.

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Education

  1. Boston University
    BS, Electrical Engineering
    2005 - 2009

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