Evan is currently Senior Data Engineer at UrbanLogiq, where he is using Rust, among other tools, in building robust data platforms to help public servants build better communities. Evan has been a distributed systems / data / software engineer for twenty years. He led a team developing FiloDB, an open source (github.com/filodb/FiloDB) distributed time series database that can process a million records per second PER NODE and simultaneously answer a large number of concurrent queries per second. He has architected, developed, and productionized large scale data and telemetry systems at companies including Apple, and loves solving the most challenging technical problems at both large and small scales, from advanced custom data structures to distributed coordination. Evan has spoken at many conferences for the last 8 years, including Spark Summit, Strata, Scale by the Bay, and keynoting at Reactive Summit. A full list of talks can be found at https://velvia.github.io/about.