Evan Elias

Personal information

First name

Evan

Last name

Elias

Company

Tumblr

Job title

Core Application Engineering Lead

Speaker Biography

Evan is a team lead at Tumblr, where he develops database solutions that scale to tens of billions of rows spanning over 200 MySQL installations. He has previously worked at Six Apart and Harvard University, and his software is used by major publications such as The New Yorker and Consumer Reports. He is intimately familiar with the internals of four major blogging platforms, and has been developing online software since the days of dial-up bulletin board systems.

Session

• Managing large sharded topologies with Jetpants