I build data systems that survive contact with production.

I'm Evan Volgas, CTO at Ardent. Previously Netflix, Mailchimp, Capital One, and a handful of startups. 20+ years building data and distributed systems.

I've watched startups and data teams succeed and fail. The pattern holds: pilots that never reach production, architecture decisions that haunt you, healthy metrics on broken systems. The technology usually works. The problem is everything else.

I write about what I've learned and maintain a handful of misfit data tools.

Want to talk? Get in touch.