Cal Evans I am a man of many skills, but few talents.

Cal Evans

Engineering Leader | Technical Trainer | AI Enablement

Florida · [email protected] LinkedIn · Blog

I build the teams that build what's next.

Experience

Confidential (SaaS)

Senior Technical Program Manager, Learning & Development / Principal Engineer June 2023 – Present | Remote

  • Built the company's Engineering AI enablement and technical training programs.
  • Agentic-First AI Enablement Initiative Program coordination for a company-wide push to adopt AI coding and productivity tools across engineering.
  • Coordinated communications, training, and onboarding for a Engineering-wide rollout of a suite of AI coding and productivity tools, shifting engineering teams to an agentic-first way of working built on concurrent engineering and rapid iteration.
  • Co-developed hands-on practitioner training and an Agentic Activities Checklist to standardize how teams adopt the tooling, pairing the curriculum with incentives that drove measurable behavior change.
  • Drove cross-functional alignment across IT, Sales Ops, Security, and Finance, tracking provisioning, surfacing licensing and cost risks early, and keeping rollout decisions moving when stakeholders were out.
  • Built and circulated a consolidated training and resource library off the back of a session that drew 50 to 60 attendees, turning one-off content into a reusable enablement asset.
  • Designed and built a twice-weekly audio-first digest that summarizes activity across an engineering org, capped at five minutes and engineered to take 5 to 10 minutes a day to produce.
  • Architected a maker-checker generation pipeline: a second model reviews each draft against explicit editorial, safety, and fact-checking rules, with a reviser loop that halts on quality or no-progress rather than on a fixed budget.
  • Pulled from approved, governed data sources rather than raw channels, building a safety gate and fact-checker so nothing unverified ships.
  • Implemented text-to-speech audio generation and drove the program from approval to a four-episode pilot, with automation as the path to a self-sustaining daily cadence.
  • Designed a twice-monthly hands-on workshop series for engineering, IT, and security — built to feel like a community, not a classroom.
  • Managed the team and participated in developing a 6-week AI Enablement Training program (18+ hours of live instruction) that moved engineers from casual AI tool use to fundamentally rethinking how they approach the SDLC with LLMs — tracked a 10% productivity increase org-wide.
  • Created an internal podcast (80+ episodes) that extracts institutional knowledge and architectural standards from key individuals and distributes them across 100+ technical leaders.
  • Partnered cross-functionally to give non-engineers a safe, structured framework for AI experimentation.

E.I.C.C., Inc. · Senior Consultant

1997 – Present | Remote

Training and professional development for web developers. Consulting clients include ADP, Adobe, BBC, Disney, and The Motley Fool.

Zend Technologies · Technical Manager, Training & Certification

2015 – 2017 | Remote

Led the PHP Training and Zend Certified Engineer Certification program. Developed and maintained curricula, delivered courses online and in-person.

GetPantheon · Developer Advocate

2014 – 2015 | Nashville, TN

Primary liaison between Pantheon and the PHP, Drupal, and WordPress developer communities. Wrote technical documentation and presented at conferences worldwide.

Kony Solutions · Developer Community Relations Director

2012 – 2013 | Nashville, TN

Organized the first Kony Developer's Conference. Wrote the foundational tutorial series and developer documentation for the platform.

Blue Parabola, LLC · Chief Marketing Officer

2009 – 2012 | Remote

Helped run PHP Architect, PHP tek, and PHP World. Created and delivered PHP training for developers worldwide.

Zend Technologies · Editor-in-Chief, DevZone

2006 – 2008

Helped build the developer ecosystem around PHP. Editor-in Chief of DevZone website. Program Chair for ZendCon '06-08. Hosted the weekly PHP Abstract podcast.

Publications

Wisdom of the ElePHPant · Voices of the ElePHPant · Going Pro · Uncle Cal's Career Advice to Developers · Signaling PHP

Skills

Team Leadership · Community Building · Technical Training & Curriculum Development · AI Enablement · Developer Relations · Engineering L&D · Program Management

Education

University of South Alabama — Computer Science