# Evan Kirkiles

> Senior Software Engineer at NYT Cooking

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/evankirkiles

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ The New York Times
Jan 2026 – Present | New York, NY

### Software Engineer @ The New York Times
Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 | New York, NY

### Associate Software Engineer @ The New York Times
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | New York, New York, United States
• Built and deployed Cooking's GraphQL subgraph to enable deprecation of our legacy Rails monolith.
• Deployed a system for appending bits of SEO and contentful data onto published recipes.
• Built an SEO library for mapping the NYT data graph into the Schema.org LD+JSON grammar.
• Built a fallback font generator for eliminating CLS from font pop-in on nytimes.com.
• Conducted technical SEO research and improvements for NYT Cooking on web.

### Software Engineer Intern @ The New York Times
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | New York, United States
User Space

### Software Engineer Intern @ Channel Studio
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Brooklyn, New York, United States
• Led development on machine learning music library explorer "Channel Music."
• Implemented cloud pipeline for sonic analysis of thousands of audio files in user libraries.
• Designed open source Netlify Terraform provider for keeping environment variables in sync.

### Product Engineering Intern @ Praxis Pioneering
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Miami, Florida, United States
• Aided time series analysis and data filtering / collection for large deep learning tasks.
• Built Python server and client for similarity and metadata search across millions of time series.
• Developed in-house React frontend and graphing library for plotting tens of thousands of datapoints across multiple time series synchronously.

### Applications Engineering Intern @ Rescale
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Owned measurement of HPC software integration tests across hardware configurations.
• Developed C++ port and cross-platform Qt interface for Windows-only file transfer manager.


## Education
### BS in Computer Science
Yale University

### High School
Kent School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/evankirkiles
- Portfolio: https://evankirkiles.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-30