Devyn S
Senior Software Engineer at Avant
Ogden, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDevyn S is a senior software engineer with 12 years of experience building high-quality tools, APIs, and user interfaces across domains including HPC, simulations, and enterprise web apps. Currently at Avant, he has a track record of taking projects from inception to major adoption, previously leading the creation of his former employer’s second-largest product and managing a team to deliver it. At Intel he architected core HPC administration software for exascale systems and devised an IoT-driven solution that saved $10M annually, reflecting a knack for practical, high-impact engineering. Devyn works across languages and stacks — Rust, C, Python, JavaScript, Svelte and cloud/DevOps toolchains — and emphasizes robust processes like TDD, SemVer releases, and customer feedback loops. He contributes to open-source tooling (notably improving showdownjs’s Markdown handling and eslint integration), showing attention to developer experience as well as end users. Based in Ogden, Utah, he combines systems-level thinking with a passion for elegant, future-ready solutions.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Brigham Young University-Idaho
Spanish, English
Github Skills (9)
html10
markdown10
javascript10
parser10
markdown-it10
parse10
converter10
eslint9
cicd7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
showdownjs/showdown
Nov 2021 - Feb 2022
A bidirectional Markdown to HTML to Markdown converter written in Javascript
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 8 reviews, 29 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Devyn primarily contributed to updating dependencies and integrating new features. They improved code quality by making eslint work and refactored multiple files. Furthermore, the user implemented the relativePathBaseUrl feature. This resulted in improving link and image handling within the markdown conversion process.
bidirectionalmarkdown-converterjavascriptmarkdown-parsergfm
showdownjs/youtube-extension
May 2015 - Feb 2022
Embed YouTube videos within showdown
Contributions:9 commits, 9 PRs, 7 pushes in 6 years 9 months
videosyoutube-videosyoutuberapidapiyoutube-embed
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