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Hi there! I'm Evan Orenstein, a Lead Software Engineer and Solution Architect based in New York City. I design, scale, and optimize distributed systems across aerospace, ecommerce, and consumer brands. I thrive leading cross-functional teams, modernizing legacy platforms, and delivering tangible performance gains in cloud-native environments. Over the past decade, I've built robust frontend and backend stacks with React and Node.js, designed APIs with GraphQL and REST, and automated CI/CD pipelines on AWS. I'm passionate about performance, accessibility, and data-driven decision-making, and I enjoy mentoring engineers to ship high-quality software on time.…Hi there! I'm Evan Orenstein, a Lead Software Engineer and Solution Architect based in New York City. I design, scale, and optimize distributed systems across aerospace, ecommerce, and consumer brands. I thrive leading cross-functional teams, modernizing legacy platforms, and delivering tangible performance gains in cloud-native environments. Over the past decade, I've built robust frontend and backend stacks with React and Node.js, designed APIs with GraphQL and REST, and automated CI/CD pipelines on AWS. I'm passionate about performance, accessibility, and data-driven decision-making, and I enjoy mentoring engineers to ship high-quality software on time.

Evan Orenstein

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Hi there! I'm Evan Orenstein, a Lead Software Engineer and Solution Architect based in New York City. I design, scale, and optimize distributed systems across aerospace, ecommerce, and consumer brands. I thrive leading cross-functional teams, modernizing legacy platforms, and delivering tangible performance gains in cloud-native environments. Over the past decade, I've built robust frontend and backend stacks with React and Node.js, designed APIs with GraphQL and REST, and automated CI/CD pipelines on AWS. I'm passionate about performance, accessibility, and data-driven decision-making, and I enjoy mentoring engineers to ship high-quality software on time.…Hi there! I'm Evan Orenstein, a Lead Software Engineer and Solution Architect based in New York City. I design, scale, and optimize distributed systems across aerospace, ecommerce, and consumer brands. I thrive leading cross-functional teams, modernizing legacy platforms, and delivering tangible performance gains in cloud-native environments. Over the past decade, I've built robust frontend and backend stacks with React and Node.js, designed APIs with GraphQL and REST, and automated CI/CD pipelines on AWS. I'm passionate about performance, accessibility, and data-driven decision-making, and I enjoy mentoring engineers to ship high-quality software on time.

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Hi there! I’m Evan Orenstein, a Lead Software Engineer and Solution Architect based in New York City. I design, scale, and optimize distributed systems across aerospace, ecommerce, and consumer brands. I thrive leading cross-functional teams, modernizing legacy platforms, and delivering tangible performance gains in cloud-native environments.

Over the past decade, I’ve built robust frontend and backend stacks with React and Node.js, designed APIs with GraphQL and REST, and automated CI/CD pipelines on AWS. I’m passionate about performance, accessibility, and data-driven decision-making, and I enjoy mentoring engineers to ship high-quality software on time.

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Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer / Technical Lead at Aurora Flight Sciences

June 1, 2018 - February 1, 2022

Aerospace and defense company specializing in advanced unmanned systems, autonomous flight, and eVTOL prototypes. Introduced feature-flag deployments to UX improvements before full release. Mentored a team of 3 engineers on modern React patterns, SSR, serverless design, and DevOps best practices. Championed cross-functional collaboration between engineering and marketing teams to align product delivery with brand goals.

Software Engineer, Frontend Expert at Boeing

June 1, 2014 - June 1, 2018

Frontend expert at Boeing, a global leader in aerospace and defense manufacturing and digital aviation systems. Led modernization of front-end apps with React, built dashboards, and automated data collection pipelines via Node.js and AWS Lambda. Modernized legacy AngularJS apps to React with code-splitting and caching, improving load times by 35%. Built RESTful microservices for test data and reporting tools used by 300+ engineers; integrated CI/CD with Jenkins and Docker; collaborated across avionics, digital engineering, and manufacturing; supported transition to Agile methodologies; led a cross-functional team of 6 to develop prototype autonomous aircraft control UIs and APIs.

Lead Software Engineer, Solution Architect at A Clean Beauty Brand

February 1, 2022 - July 1, 2025

Lead software engineer and solution architect for a clean beauty brand offering inclusive skincare sold through Sephora and DTC. Built a next-generation e-commerce platform using React 18, Node.js, and AWS Lambda; developed GraphQL and REST APIs to support product catalog, order management, and real-time inventory synchronization with Shopify and ERP systems. Engineered serverless ETL pipelines for marketing data in PostgreSQL and Snowflake; created a reusable React component library (Storybook + TypeScript) reducing UI duplication by 35%. Implemented CI/CD with GitHub Actions, Docker, and Terraform for blue/green deployments to AWS ECS. Improved Core Web Vitals and SEO via Next.js SSR and CloudFront image optimization (+40% organic traffic). Built real-time analytics dashboards with D3.js and WebSockets; established observability with S3 + CloudWatch; designed a Jest/Cypress-based frontend/API test framework (>90% coverage). Collaborated with avionics, digital engineering, and manufac

Lead Software Engineer, Solution Architect at Acle an Beauty (Sephora/DTC)

February 1, 2022 - July 1, 2025

Lead Software Engineer, Solution Architect for the Aclean Beauty brand (Sephora and DTC). Designed and built a distributed e-commerce platform using React and Node.js, with AWS Lambda serverless microservices. Modernized legacy systems, implemented RESTful APIs, and established CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, Docker, and Terraform. Built real-time analytics dashboards in D3.js with S3 + CloudWatch monitoring. Created a reusable React component library (Storybook + TypeScript) to streamline UI across marketing and admin apps, reducing duplication by 35%. Integrated payments (Stripe) and marketing services (SendGrid, Twilio) and aligned cross-functional teams for on-time delivery.

Frontend Expert / Software Engineer at Boeing

July 1, 2014 - June 1, 2018

Frontend engineer delivering UI for aerospace and defense manufacturing and digital aviation systems. Introduced feature-flag deployments and A/B testing workflows to validate UX changes prior to full releases. Migrated legacy frontend components to modern React-based patterns and mentored a team of engineers on front-end best practices, significantly improving maintainability and performance of critical flight-system interfaces.

Lead Software Engineer / Solution Architect

February 1, 2022 - July 1, 2025

Led design and delivery of a next-generation e-commerce platform on React and Node.js; built GraphQL and REST APIs, implemented CI/CD with GitHub Actions and Docker, and set up Terraform-based infrastructure on AWS. Built real-time analytics dashboards with D3.js and WebSockets; achieved a 28% uplift in conversions and integrated monitoring with CloudWatch and an S3 data lake.