Evan Kohilas

Fractional Engineer

Founding Engineer

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

Platform Senior Software Engineer

• 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

• 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

L7 Load Balancing SDE Intern

AppEngine Storage SRE Intern