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I'm a software engineer at <a href="https://www.datadoghq.com/">Datadog</a> in New York. I previously worked at <a href="https://bluecore.com/">Bluecore</a>, <a href="https://www.evanjones.ca/jvm-mmap-pause.html">fixed</a> <a href="https://www.evanjones.ca/java-bytebuffer-leak.html">interesting</a> <a href="https://www.evanjones.ca/checksum-failure-is-a-kernel-bug.html">bugs</a> at Twitter, and taught a database class at Columbia as an adjunct. I was a co-founder and CTO of <a href="https://www.mitro.co/">Mitro, a password manager for groups and organizations</a>, along with <a href="https://www.vijayp.ca/">Vijay Pandurangan</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/ahilss">Adam Hilss</a>. Before that, I earned a Ph. D. from <a href="https://www.csail.mit.edu/">MIT</a>, researching distributed OLTP databases with <a href="http://db.csail.mit.edu/madden/">Sam Madden</a>. Even earlier in my life, I worked at Google in New York for a bit more than a year, and I was a graduate and undergraduate student at the <a href="https://www.uwaterloo.ca/">University of Waterloo</a>. I am <a href="http://evanjones.ca/social-network-policy.html">grudgingly</a> on <a href="https://discuss.systems/@epcjones">Mastodon</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/epcjones/">LinkedIn</a>, and <a href="https://github.com/evanj">GitHub</a>.

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