# Evan Leichter

> Software Engineer at Opal

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/evanleichter

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Opal Security
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer II @ Globality, Inc.
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Revamped and expanded core features for storing pricing data, leading to higher reliability and faster time-to-resolution for customer issues
- Acted as technical lead for our multidisciplinary product team, leading multiple projects to completion

### Senior Software Engineer II @ Collective Health
Jan 2016 – Jan 2021
•	Helped lead a migration of our 50+ microservices to Kubernetes with no unplanned downtime
•	Built an end-to-end testing framework with automated creation of dynamic environments, integrated into projects' existing build pipelines
•	Primary maintainer of critical, highly-available service discovery components, written in Golang
•	Served on-call for all of the company's infrastructure, using Prometheus to automate alerts and Terraform to automate changes
•	Acted as Tech Lead on two teams, leading project planning and acting as a subject matter expert
•	Worked on an employee Culture Commission helping conduct exit interviews, surface anonymized employee feedback, and build a stronger developer culture

### Software Engineer @ Reelcontent, Inc. (Formerly Cinema6)
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | Princeton, NJ
•	Primary developer on backend API: built and maintained a fleet of RESTful microservices written with Node.js and Express
•	Helped build deployment pipeline using Chef and Jenkins to automatically test and deploy these services
•	Designed and built numerous fundamental systems, including authentication, payment, and RBAC permissions systems
•	Maintained infrastructure in AWS and was primary administrator of MongoDB cluster
•	Helped train backend interns and managed their projects

### Student @ Princeton University
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013

### CSO and Cofounder @ Mapsaurus
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
•	Helped build a company specializing in Android app recommendations and visually mapping the Android App Marketplace.
•	Designed our app recommendation algorithm as well as backend architecture that would store and update information for the entire app marketplace.
•	Deployed and maintained cloud infrastructure using AWS EC2
•	Worked in python and used redis, MongoDB, Flask, and Celery.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Vericle, Inc
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011
•	Worked in Java to develop an interface where doctors can store patient medical records online and translate this data into standard forms


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Computer Science
Princeton University

### Millburn High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/evan-leichter

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Last updated: 2026-04-01