Summary
Evan Borgstrom is a Production Engineer in San Francisco with 12 years building and operating large-scale systems for companies from startups to Meta. He specializes in automating repeatable work, productionizing ML workflows, and improving developer experience—most recently enabling Instagram ML teams with feature engineering, model metadata, and lifecycle tooling. Previously he led platform and deployment transformations at NerdWallet, moving teams to IaC, containers, and ephemeral deployments while scaling the engineering org from ~50 to >250. Comfortable communicating with both executives and researchers, he blends deep systems craftsmanship (UNIX, networking, ops) with product-aware engineering. A committed open-source-minded hacker, he consistently favors practical, auditable solutions that make complex systems easier to operate. An under-the-radar strength is his track record of turning operational pain points into developer productivity platforms that scale across organizations.
12 years of coding experience