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Evan
Borden

Manager of Engineering · Razorfish · Charlotte, NC

Engineering manager and Adobe architect, leading client teams at a martech agency, with a focus on Adobe Experience Cloud in healthcare.

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01 Profile

I build the team, own the architecture, and get it into production.

I'm Evan Borden, Manager of Engineering at Razorfish, a martech agency, based in Charlotte, NC. I lead the people and the plan behind client teams — hiring, staffing and resourcing development and QA engineers across the US, India and Costa Rica — and own the architecture those teams build, most recently Adobe Experience Platform and Journey Optimizer work in healthcare under HIPAA.

Underneath that is a hands-on engineering background, from enterprise WordPress and Adobe Experience Manager to the wider Adobe cloud stack, and I use AI tooling in my own day-to-day work.

Current
Manager of Engineering · Razorfish
Based in
Charlotte, NC
Focus
Teams · Architecture · Delivery
Hiring reach
US · India · Costa Rica
02 Experience

A career built shipping the hard parts.

From Senior Engineer to Manager of Engineering at Razorfish, built on years of shipping interactive work at Interactive Knowledge — from hands-on code to staffing, architecture governance and delivery.

2024 – Present

Manager of Engineering

/ Razorfishcurrent
  • Promoted to Manager of Engineering in 2024. Own hiring, staffing and resource planning for development and QA roles across my accounts, along with the architecture those teams build.
  • Continued as Tech Lead on Disney Rewards until the GVP of Technology and CTO at the time entrusted me with leading Labcorp, which I still lead today.
  • Adobe Architect and Tech Lead on Marker by Labcorp and Thrive 5 Personalization. Took both into production in 2026, which led to continued work with Labcorp.
Nov 2018 – 2024

Senior Engineer

/ Razorfish
  • Tech Lead and primary Adobe Experience Manager developer on UC Health (AEM 6.5 on-premise) from 2018 to 2023, while developing on Disney Rewards in parallel.
  • Stepped up to Tech Lead on Disney Rewards in 2022, overlapping with UC Health.
Sep 2012 – Oct 2018

Senior Web Developer

/ Interactive Knowledge
  • Built media-rich interactive experiences for non-profits, museums and educational institutions.
  • Shipped responsive, mobile-first apps in React and Vue against custom REST and microservice backends.
  • Partnered with UX to translate design comps into accessible, performant interfaces.
2008 – 2012

Where it started

  • Professionally since 2008, but it started long before that: DOS commands on Windows PCs as a kid, the Linux command line in high school, building PCs and teaching myself to build websites from online tutorials. Technology has been a lifelong fascination, and I always knew I wanted to build my career around it.
03 Leadership

People, plan and architecture.

The job has two halves: the people and the plan behind a team, and the architecture that team builds. This is how I handle both.

01

Hiring & interviewing

Run staffing and interviews for development and quality assurance roles across experience levels and role types, including hiring my own successor on Disney Rewards.

02

Global talent sourcing

Work directly with the people in charge of staffing to find qualified engineers in Costa Rica and India, and fill project roles from both the internal bench and external candidates.

03

Resource planning & margin

Partner with project managers to refine resource start and end dates, understand role rates and cost, and adjust the staffing mix to protect margin.

04

Account leadership

Comfortable running more than one account at once, and trusted with the ones that matter. Technology leadership handed me Labcorp to lead it to success, and I still do. I work across teams and directly with the client, not only with my own engineers.

05

Architecture governance

Take architecture recommendations through client architecture review boards, vetting each one against the wider enterprise infrastructure it has to live in.

06

Security & HIPAA

Identify and weigh every data path in an architecture for security concerns and PHI exposure, so healthcare builds meet HIPAA by design rather than by audit.

07

Pre-sales & scoping

Contribute directly to statements of work, read RFPs, and vet technical requirements and levels of effort with the teams who will build it. Then build the slide decks, live demos and discovery documentation that frame the work.

08

Advocacy & growth

Surface engineers' contributions to leadership and make the case for their promotions. Partner daily with VP+ technical leaders.

09

Standards & practices

Streamlined teams onto an agreed set of coding conventions, naming and formatting rules, so the codebase stays consistent, reviewable and easy to hand off.

10

AI-augmented delivery

Fully up to speed with Claude, ChatGPT and other models as working tools: drafting architecture documents, writing Confluence documentation against real codebases, automating Jira ticket resolution, and building my own tools that turn out Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint decks.

04 Capabilities

Architecture and the hands-on stack.

If it's listed here, I know it well and use it in real work — from Adobe Experience Cloud and enterprise CMS to front and back end, cloud and CI/CD.

Architecture
Agile / SAFeSystem DesignTechnical Analysis & Documentation
Frontend
JavaScriptReactVue.jsNode.jsSass / SCSS
Backend
PHPJavaREST API DesignMySQL / SQLComposer
CMS / DAM
WordPressAdobe Experience Manager (AEM)Gutenberg / Block EditorACF Pro
Cloud & Infrastructure
AWSAzureAdobe App BuilderAdobe I/O (Runtime, Events, CLI)DockerLinux Server Administration
DevOps & Tooling
WebpackGit & Deployment WorkflowsCI/CD PipelinesPostman
Data & Analytics
Adobe Analytics & CJAXDM / Schema ModelingAdobe Experience Platform Data Collection
CDP & Personalization
Adobe Experience Platform (AEP)Adobe Journey Optimizer (AJO)Decision Management (Offer Decisioning)Adobe Target
Security & Compliance
HIPAA & PHI Data-Flow ReviewOAuth / OIDCJWT / JOSE
AI & Machine Learning
AI-Assisted Architecture & DocumentationAI Workflow AutomationPrompt Engineering
Testing & QA
Accessibility Testing (WCAG)
Healthcare
Epic EHR
05 Selected work

Where the engineering shows up.

Selected client work — Adobe Experience Cloud architecture for healthcare, and enterprise WordPress platforms.

Razorfish · Labcorp · 2026

Thrive 5 Personalization

Adobe Architect and Tech Lead on a Labcorp personalization program spanning AEM as a Cloud Service, Adobe App Builder, Adobe Experience Platform and Journey Optimizer, feeding a downstream proprietary Patient Portal that has to stay HIPAA-compliant. I owned the solution architecture, and my team built the App Builder integration tier and the AEP/AJO layer: XDM schemas, profiles, journeys and offer decisioning. Getting it into production took constant work with the AEM and Patient Portal teams and with the client, including architecture review board sign-off with every PHI data path accounted for.

Solution architectureAdobe App BuilderAdobe Experience PlatformAdobe Journey OptimizerAEMaaCS integrationHIPAA
Razorfish · Labcorp · 2026

Marker by Labcorp

Adobe Architect and Tech Lead on a media-driven landing page for a custom Labcorp product, delivered on a tight timeline. I led the technical implementation and the team building custom AEM as a Cloud Service components across the back end and front end. I stayed on camera with the client at every step, ran ticket management, and worked hand in hand with the project manager to get it live.

AEMaaCSCustom componentsBack endFront endTeam leadership
Razorfish · 2019–2026 · Tech Lead from 2022

Disney Rewards

Custom WordPress platform with bespoke Gutenberg blocks, ACF Pro field architecture, Chase Bank API integration via JWT/JOSE, Adobe CJA tagging, and Adobe Target personalization. Shipped through GitLab CI/CD.

WordPressPHP 8GutenbergChase APIAdobe CJAAdobe Target
Razorfish · Tech Lead 2018–2023

UC Health

On-premise AEM 6.5 platform for a large healthcare system: a multi-module Maven build with OSGi services, Sling models and servlets, HTL templating, JCR packaging. Vue 2 in AEM clientlibs. Epic EHR integration architecture.

AEM 6.5 on-premJavaSlingVue 2Maven
06 References

In their words.

“
I had the pleasure of working with Evan Borden on several cross-functional projects, and he consistently delivered high-quality work with precision and thoughtfulness. Evan brings a sharp technical mind to every challenge and always asks the right questions to drive clarity and alignment, something that made our collaboration both efficient and effective. He also has a great sense for balancing user experience with technical feasibility, which made him a key contributor to building thoughtful, scalable solutions. What stands out most is his strong work ethic and professionalism. He's the kind of engineering partner you want on every team: reliable, detail-oriented, and always pushing to build better products. Any team would be lucky to have him!
BGBianca GassawaySenior Technical Program ManagerWorked with Evan on the same team
“
Evan is one of those rare developers you find in the hacker role in blockbuster movies, the protagonists go to him at their greatest time of need and in a matter of movie minutes he's in the mainframe, hacking the planet and ensuring the good guys win. He also has a fantastic bedside manner with clients and often provides excellent insight and technical acumen to save the day. I don't worry about tickets or difficult bugs when I assign them to Evan, they'll get done on time, and better documented at the end to boot.
PKPhilip KostkaSenior Technical Project ManagerWas senior to Evan
07 Off the clock
Personal · 2025–26

Claude × MCP × WordPress

A self-hosted Linux box running custom Nginx that wires GitHub webhooks and the Model Context Protocol up to Claude apps. The result: prompt-driven WordPress page creation, automated code management, and CMS publishing that I drive from chat.

LinuxNginxMCPWordPress RESTGitHub Webhooks
Personal · multi-year

Unity Game Engine Project

A long-running Unity FPS built for the love of the craft, hand-built C# scripts, scenes and prefabs, with an increasingly AI-augmented toolchain: Unity MCP and custom Claude connectors driving the editor, a Leonardo.ai pipeline for art and textures, and a bespoke map design and generation pipeline.

Unity 3DC#Unity MCPClaude connectorsLeonardo.aiMap gen pipeline
Hiking · carolina trailsRunning · logging milesGaming · controller down-timeFather & Husband · the title that matters most
08 Contact

Let's build something serious.

Open to senior engineering leadership roles — Engineering Manager, Director of Engineering, Technical Director or Solutions Architect. Based in Charlotte, NC, partnering across US, India and Costa Rica time zones. Happy to talk through what you're building.

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Education
UNC Charlotte
B.S. Computer Science, Software Engineering Concentration
2006 – 2008
Central Piedmont Community College
A.A.S. Advertising + Graphic Design
2004 – 2006
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