Evans E.A
About Evans E.A
Evans E.A is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Thomson Reuters in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with a background in Computer Science from the University of Lagos and ongoing studies in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Queen's University. He has extensive experience in DevOps practices, infrastructure deployment, and operational efficiency improvements.
Work at Thomson Reuters
Evans E.A. has been employed at Thomson Reuters as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer since 2020. In this role, he collaborates with service owners across the organization to export best practices. His work focuses on enhancing system reliability and operational efficiency, contributing to the overall performance of the company's services.
Education and Expertise
Evans E.A. holds a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in Computer Science from the University of Lagos, which he completed from 2008 to 2013. He is currently pursuing a Master in Management with a focus on Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Smith School of Business at Queen's University, a program he began in 2022.
Previous Experience in Software Engineering
Before joining Thomson Reuters, Evans E.A. worked at Interswitch Limited as a Software Integration/DevOps Engineer from 2014 to 2019. He utilized Azure ARM templates for infrastructure deployment and implemented infrastructure as code using Azure DevOps. His responsibilities included developing a CI/CD pipeline for operational tasks and improving the incident triage process.
Early Career and Development Roles
Evans E.A. began his career as a Trainee Test Analyst at Osprey Zenith Consulting Ltd in 2012, where he worked for five months. He later served as a Technical Advisor at Dundas Data Visualization Inc. from 2019 to 2020. In these roles, he provided feedback to the DevOps team and empowered teams to build monitoring and alerting systems through SRE evangelism.