Summary
Evan Henley is a Technical Lead II and frontend specialist with 12 years of experience building high-performance React applications, JavaScript SDKs, and rich web UIs from Colorado Springs. He has driven large-scale modernizations at Visa—rebuilding SDKs used by thousands of merchants, cutting checkout times by ~10 seconds, and introducing rollout/rollback systems that safely retired legacy code. Equally fluent in frontend architecture, monorepos, webpack optimizations, and end-to-end testing with Playwright/Cypress, he’s a pragmatic engineer who champions test-driven reliability and developer experience. An active contributor to Redux DevTools, Evan focuses on improving tooling reliability under hot-reload and complex state scenarios. Trained as a classical cellist, he brings a creative, detail-oriented mindset to engineering and spends downtime painting, trail-running in the Rockies, and prototyping elegant UI interactions.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Music, Cello Performance, Bachelor of Music, Cello Performance at Arizona State University