Wade Evanhoff
Head Of Engineering Co-Founder at Caldera
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWade Evanhoff is a pragmatic engineering leader and co-founder with over a decade of experience building and scaling digital products and teams in the Greater Minneapolis–St. Paul area. As Head of Engineering at Caldera and former VP of Engineering at Capillary North America, he has grown teams, instituted career and delivery frameworks, and maintained high retention through economic headwinds. Wade pairs hands-on system architecture and API design with people-first management—coaching engineers, defining clear goals, and keeping standards high across projects for enterprise clients. His background includes architecting IoT platforms, CMS/CaaS solutions, and resilient cloud infrastructures for Fortune-scale customers, revealing a knack for translating complex business needs into reliable technical solutions. He’s equally comfortable shipping code and shaping organizational processes, and has a history of building hiring pipelines with regional bootcamps to diversify technical talent. Known for breaking down thorny problems into durable, scalable solutions, Wade brings both technical depth and operational discipline to early-stage and growing engineering organizations.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Software Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science, Software Engineering at Minnesota State University, Mankato
Russian, German
Github Skills (23)
markdown10
razor10
static-site-generator9
dotnet9
nodejs9
zero-configuration8
umbraco8
property-editor7
summarizer7
javascript4
natural-language-processing4
nlp4
command-line-tool4
webserver3
2d-game2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
wkallhof/Simple301
Sep 2015 - Apr 2019
Simple 301 redirect manager for the Umbraco Back-Office
Contributions:39 commits, 4 PRs, 29 pushes in 3 years 7 months
umbraco
wkallhof/plumbus
May 2019 - Mar 2020
HTML5 2D Game Engine
Contributions:14 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
2d-game
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