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Evan Kohilas

Evan Kohilas

Engineering Productivity Advocate and International Speaker
resume@evan.id
Modern Greek

Background

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Fractional Engineer, No Human Errors

    Jan, 2026 - Present

  • Founding Engineer, Waffer (YC F25)

    Jan, 2025 - Jan, 20251 day

    Pioneered agentic video GenAI, B2C SaaS products, handling 10,000+ users in a single day.

  • Platform Senior Software Engineer, Constantinople

    Jan, 2023 - Jan, 20252 years

    • Saved 3 FTEs salary yearly in AWS costs.

    • Reduced by 7x the time to take a commit to production via spearheading the introduction of unit, coverage, linting, quarantine, post-merge, and contract testing frameworks.

    • Unblocked CI changes through becoming the go to expert in CI, and by pioneering tooling to allow safe migration from legacy configurations.

    • Reduced time and errors by implementing frameworks to automate manual deployment.

    • Uplifted engineering culture by spearheading tooling for notifying of broken builds.

    • Empowered engineers by educating on best practices, and automating via linting rules.

    • Proactively prevented hundreds of security issues by upgrading from EOL versions of NodeJS.

    • Hosted intern over 6 months with returning offer.

  • Design Import Backend Engineer, Canva

    Jan, 2020 - Jan, 20233 years

    • Supported millions of files daily through the collaboration with teams to convert multiple elements between Canva designs and file formats such as PDF, Powerpoint, and Photoshop.

    • Eliminated 85% of service import errors by designing services to remove document limits and halving server memory usage.

    • Prototyped Photoshop as a conversion format.

    • Mitigated human errors and accelerated company productivity through the leading of a hackathon project.

  • Cyber Detection & Response Engineering Intern, Commonwealth Bank

    Jan, 2020 - Jan, 20201 day

  • L7 Load Balancing SDE Intern, Amazon Web Services

    Jan, 2019 - Jan, 20191 day

  • AppEngine Storage SRE Intern, Google

    Jan, 2018 - Jan, 20181 day

Projects Experience

Projects Experience

  • CI Test

    Jan, 2024 - Present

    CI configuration static analysis testing framework.

Skills

Skills

  • Programming Languages

    Python

    Typescript

    Java

  • Languages & Tooling

    Rust

    C

    C++

    Haskell

    Shell

    SQL

    Git

  • Cloud

    AWS

    SQS

    SNS

    S3

    Lambda

Education

Education

  • Computer Science/Science (Maths), Bachelor, University of New South Wales

    - Present

  • , Student Exchange, University of Tokyo

    - Present

Volunteer Work

Volunteer Work

  • Founder, Snow Gum Summit

    Jan, 2026 - Jan, 2026

    Organised Australia's 1st tech conference on snow.

  • Assistant Conference Director, PyCon Australia

    Jan, 2025 - Jan, 2026

  • Platform Engineering Specialist Track Organiser, PyCon Australia

    Jan, 2025 - Jan, 2026

  • Group Leader & Tutor (Web/Embedded/Security), NCSS Summer School

    Jan, 2017 - Jan, 2024

    Managed a team of tutors to inspire and teach computer science and security fundamentals to more than 100 high-school students over 10 days.

Publications

Publications

Interests

Interests

  • Ultimate Frisbee

    Competent

  • Baking Subway Cookies

    Proficient