Evan Farrar Email & Phone Number

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

- Led a team that worked on deepening the integrations with and architecture for TAS running on VMware IaaSes- Managed a team making cross functional improvements to TAS, while still managing the aforementioned team- Now lead the team that maintains and improves TAS's developer-facing API (in Rails)

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

- I worked on improving the architecture of and debugging the integration of Tanzu Application Service (TAS) running on VMware's IaaS product lines (VMC on AWS and VMware Cloud Foundation)- I worked on the experience for operators using Tanzu Application Service on Kubernetes by designing extensible and configurable deployment YAML documents through the templating features provided by Carvel

San Francisco, California, Us

I worked as an engineer on the release tooling & operations for PAS. We provide tools and support for roughly 40 teams that contribute to Pivotal Application Service to enable them to validate their work as quickly as possible.

San Francisco, California, Us

I was the first Manager in Product in R&D in the Los Angeles office as we grew from 1 to 5 product managers. I also was the Product Manager of the Consul and ETCD services within our product, which were the root cause of over 50% of support tickets for Pivotal's Platform Application Service. My team reduced this to under 10% through troubleshooting, observability improvements, upstream bugfixes in ETCD and Consul. Eventually we reduced this to 0% by ending both products' usage in our platform. I also worked as a Product Manager focused on the installation experience for PAS, and later, as the Product Manager for PAS releases 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7.

San Francisco, California, Us

I worked as an engineer on the team that developed on the Notifications service of Cloud Foundry and operated it in Pivotal Web Services. I also worked on the team that developed (and ran) a load balancer provisioning service to allow Pivotal Web Services customers to terminate SSL for their Applications with custom certificates. I would later become the Product Manager for these teams, as well as helping to charter (as Product Manager) the team that would develop Cloud Foundry's container networking plugin interface and Batteries-included networking plugin (Silk).

New York, Ny, Us

I have taken a sabbatical to learn new languages and do some theoretical computer science.

New York, Ny, Us

At Kitchensurfing I was the second non-founder on the Product team. I developed features for the product on a daily basis and did technical analysis of planned features. I managed two engineers. I developed Kitchensurfing's first iPhone app. I served as an interim product manager while we hired our first product manager and during that time spearheaded the first prototype of what would become the same-day dinner product.

San Francisco, California, Us

I help companies learn to deliver software quickly and sustainably, with XP and good engineering practices. We teach mostly by our actions, not our words: pairing with client developers and delivering working software directly to client product owners.

After doing a hackathon and a side project together my friends Samanth and Jocelyn we decided we really wanted to work together on something we were passionate about: introducing programming to kids, especially girls. We wanted to accomplish this with a visual programming environment on the iPad. Working on Hopscotch I did everything I could that was needed: branding, product management, hands-on UX testing with kids, wireframing, pitching investors, coding, illustration and animation. The first app I worked on, "Daisy the Dinosaur", is still in the app store today and the company is still releasing versions of their second product, Hopscotch, with thousands of daily users.

Us

In 2007 I created an open source version of Gold Sprints (computer driven stationary bicycle racing) for friends. More people started to use it – my software and hardware became the de facto worldwide standard with hundreds of installations worldwide. A user of the software, Jonathan Morrison, approached Electrical Engineer Luke Orland and I to turn it into a business to service higher end or less technical clients who wanted something custom but didn't want to modify the software or assemble the hardware themselves. We used that revenue to make OpenSprints more consumer friendly and to refine the product further. In 2012 I sold my share of the company to my co-founders to focus on Hopscotch.

Chicago, Il, Us

I joined a handful of engineers working at Groupon very early in their trajectory. I was the first engineer hired after the launch of Groupon. I helped them tame their massive and flaky test suite, optimized SQL, learned how to deploy to massive constantly changing systems with minimal downtime, did live production debugging and disaster recovery, and launched Groupon’s first rewards program.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

We wrote a rails app in 2006 when rails was very new. It was fun.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Tons of work with Samba, Microsoft Domains, iptables, and licensing servers.