I helped build two successful products from the ground up.
Because of my prior startup experience quickly bringing a product to market, I was tasked with building Easy Apply upon starting at LinkedIn. Easy Apply allows for pre-filling job application forms based on one's LinkedIn profile data. Within 4 months, we had 250,000 jobs supported by Easy Apply. The architecture I built served as the groundwork for growing and expanding the product to support millions of job applications today. At first, I primarily worked on our Java backend services, and then I migrated to our Ember-based frontend. After I left the project, I continued to advise the remaining engineers.
After showing the ability to execute on new products with Easy Apply, I was brought on as one of the first five engineers on LinkedIn Talent Insights, an ambitious analytics product providing workforce metrics and competitive intelligence to businesses. I again worked throughout the stack both within the Java-based API layer and the Ember-based UI layer. LTI became one of the fastest growing products in LinkedIn history.
I served in a technical leadership role, mentoring other engineers, participating in RFCs (LinkedIn's technical design document process), giving details code reviews, and serving for two years on our Hiring Committee. As a Staff SWE, I evaluated SWE and Senior SWE candidates for promotions, judging their craftsmanship, execution, and leadership abilities. I improved the communication and craftsmanship among our UI engineers by creating an opt-in meeting with a crowdsourced agenda where we could discuss pain points. This meeting spurred skill sharing and improvements in our testing infrastructure.
I was a key engineer for solving the hardest to diagnose bugs. In a performance review, my manager said "If Evan has a super power, it is his debugging ability. Give him a bug and he will find the root cause no matter how deeply embedded it is."
