Evan Cooper
Head Of Engineering at Whale
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEvan Cooper is a Head of Engineering with a decade of experience turning ambiguous product goals into scalable front-end architectures, currently leading engineering at Whale after principal roles at Stackpoint Ventures and senior front-end leadership at AWS and Wayfair. A self-taught developer who began with Khan Academy and CodeAcademy, he progressed from launching client sites and a webcam fitness startup to directing large-scale React/Redux projects, TDD practices, and frontend learning programs used across organizations. He combines hands-on prototyping and production architecture—spanning cloud infra, APIs, and interfaces—with recruiting and mentoring to seed healthy long-term engineering cultures. Notably, he thrives in both early-stage buildouts and scaling phases, routinely stepping in as the first builder, then recruiting and handing off sustainable engineering leadership. Based in Boston, he pairs military-honed discipline and teaching instincts with pragmatic product focus to deliver reliable, testable user experiences.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Communication and Media Studies, Bachelor's degree, Communication and Media Studies at UMass Boston
Github Skills (43)
javascript10
go10
codesandbox10
gatsbyjs10
frontend10
enzyme10
react10
react-hooks9
unit-testing9
react-component9
backend8
podcast8
typescript8
slack-bot8
nodejs8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
runtime-rundown/podcast-site
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Powering the runtime rundown podcast site
Contributions:7 reviews, 90 commits, 12 PRs in 5 months
runtimerubypodcast
Cooperbuilt/react-from-scratch
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
Building a clone of react from scratch for all the learnings
Contributions:12 commits, 4 PRs, 8 pushes in 14 days
react
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