Edmund Evans
Staff Engineer at Arm
Greater Cambridge Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolEdmund Evans is a Staff Engineer based in the Greater Cambridge Area with 13 years of professional experience and a long tenure at Arm. He brings deep systems and build-tool expertise, demonstrated by contributions to the prominent DynamoRIO dynamic instrumentation project where he improved CMake and compiler/linker behavior. Edmund’s background includes research engineering at Vocalis and advanced study at the University of Cambridge, reflecting a blend of academic rigor and applied engineering. He excels at improving build systems, toolchains, and low-level infrastructure to make complex codebases more maintainable and portable. Colleagues rely on him for sensible, pragmatic changes that reduce friction in large-scale C/C++ code and build environments. His work often surfaces in quieter but high-impact places — build scripts, compiler flags, and assertion clarity — that pay dividends across entire engineering teams.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of CambridgeDurham School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
c-language10
dynamic10
build-system10
cmake10
instrumentation10
rio10
binarydiff10
dynamic-analysis10
cprogramming-language10
compiler-optimization9
assembly7
operating-system6
stack6
boolean6
hardware6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
DynamoRIO/dynamorio
Jan 2016 - Nov 2017
Dynamic Instrumentation Tool Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:84 reviews, 446 commits, 52 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Edmund contributed to the DynamicRIO instrumentation tool, focusing on code improvements related to compiler flags and assertion messages. The user modified and added functionality to several CMake configuration files to enhance support for linker flags, build system, and compiler behavior. They also addressed issues and applied code changes to several files to enhance readability and code functionality.
instrumentationbinary-analysisprofilingwindowslinux
veracruz-project/rust-mbedtls
Apr 2022 - Aug 2023
Contributions:4 PRs, 56 pushes, 25 branches in 1 year 3 months
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