Evan Robinson

• Growing a high performing regional delivery service into a competitive national carrier.

• Scaled an international team and last-mile delivery platform to handle millions of shipments per year and $100MM+ revenue.
• Led innovations in optimization technology to achieve record low cost per box.
• Led innovations in delivery quality to achieve record low failures.

Applying AI to climate risk analytics for the property insurance industry. Delivered software-based services backing $20MM in total contract value.

• Transforming obsolete catastrophe risk modeling with AI (computer vision and machine learning)
• Building a distributed team of senior system, data, DevOps, and full-stack engineers
• Creating a large-scale workflow and property analysis engine handling millions of properties per day
• Creating storage and retrieval systems to handle petabytes of geospatial data
• Delivering on-demand underwriting and rating support services for tier 1 P&C insurance companies
• Ensuring data security and compliance to meet stringent client standards

Consulting CTO to early and mid-stage start-ups. Practice areas include:

• Hiring and retaining top talent
• Technology strategy and flexible architectures
• Strategies for cost-efficient development and fundraising
  
• Site reliability engineering
  
• Creating and sustaining excellent culture
  

Directed technology strategy, platform operations, and day-to-day development of the Shipwire platform. Delivered software enabling $150MM in e-commerce fulfillment services.

Executive/Management

• Enhanced platform to support 6x revenue (from $24MM to $150MM) and 5MM transactions per day
• Built out engineering organization from 15 to 50 FTEs
• Formalized and scaled the Support, QA, DevOps, and SRE functions
• Led technical due diligence for corporate investments and acquisitions
• Evangelized iterative and API-first development throughout Ingram Micro
• Maintained an excellent engineering culture, resulting in < 5% turnover through 2017
  
• Recognized as a top executive and technology thought leader, and selected for Stanford GSB program

Technical

• Integrated Shipwire platform into Ingram Micro systems and worldwide logistics network
• Created a novel inventory-sharing solution to connect e-commerce retailers and vendors
  
• Deployed a GDPR strategy, including the deployment of dedicated platform instances in the EU
• Extended the Shipwire platform to support the management of hybrid fulfillment networks

Awards

• Runner-up, Best Technology Workplace (Tech in Motion, September 2016)

Hands-on technical co-founder. Built a team and technology that rivaled and bested Amazon's own fulfillment offerings. Delivered a platform enabling $24MM run rate at time of acquisition by Ingram Micro.

Executive/Management

• Built the industry's first open and global e-commerce logistics platform
• Reached 1,200 customers with annual revenue of $24MM
• Raised two rounds of VC funding ($15MM) from three investors
• Served as board member, participating in all board-level decisions for the company
• Built out technology team (15 FTEs, all levels/disciplines), and made other key executive hires
• Sold to Ingram Micro (~$100MM), a Fortune 100 company, December 2013
  

Technical

• Architect of v1.0 Shipwire platform
• Awarded patents for systems for managing complex product SKUs and asset-light fulfillment brokerage
• Pioneered industry's first open e-commerce logistics APIs
  
• Created unique systems and processes to ensure performance of third-party logistics providers
• Created novel real-time shipping optimization technology, able to consider thousands of options
• Created cost-saving systems to identify and reconcile discrepancies in shipping carrier charges
• Created standards for fast integration with warehouse management systems
• Integrated with 100s of systems: e-commerce marketplaces, shopping carts, ERPs, shipping carriers, ...
• Served thousands of client systems with 99.99% availability across two fault-tolerant data centers

Awards

• Best Supply Chain Company CODiE (SIIA, June 2013)

Channeled my off-line passion for all things automotive into the development of a leading automotive research and purchasing destination.

• Managed a team of 7 engineers (front-end, back-end, QA) supporting a $10MM vertical for Yahoo!
• Primary technical architect for data, syndication, and classifieds platforms
• Developed one of industry's first real-time federated new car quote systems
• Built a platform that offered near real-time insights into consumer automotive interests
• Led the definition, architecture, implementation, and operations for Yahoo! Autos Custom, a car enthusiast site
• Modernized release and operations with "one-click" deployment, full site monitoring, and escalation process
  
• Charter member of cross-organizational architecture council

Contributing engineer to the Internet's first software-based advertising management solution, NetGravity AdServer (later, DoubleClick Dart for Publishers).

• Tech lead on application server for industry's first ad management platform
• Performance optimization and remote diagnostics for complex customer issues
• Built administration, targeting, and reporting components