Evan Borden
Vice President Of Software Engineering at Renaissance Learning
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEvan Borden is a seasoned software engineering leader with 13 years of experience now serving as Vice President of Software Engineering in Austin, Texas. He has a strong track record scaling teams and delivery at education-technology companies, progressing from senior engineer to director and executive roles at Freckle, Nearpod, and Renaissance Learning. Technically grounded and curious, Evan contributes to open-source projects—particularly in Haskell and developer tooling—improving linters, formatters, and low-level networking behavior that benefit editor integrations and cross-platform sockets. He blends full-stack experience with a focus on maintainability and test coverage, and he often surfaces practical fixes that improve developer ergonomics. Known for an insatiable desire for knowledge, he pairs hands-on contributions with strategic leadership to ship reliable systems that support learning products.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Web Site Development and Management, IT, Web Site Development and Management, IT at Champlain College
English
Github Skills (19)
javascript10
underscorejs10
underscore10
currying10
vim10
socket10
network10
functional-programming10
haskell10
testing9
language-server-protocol9
vim-plugin9
autocomplete9
wp-api8
winapi8
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
haskell/network
Oct 2015 - Aug 2020
Low-level networking interface
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:91 commits, 57 PRs, 116 pushes in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Evan primarily contributed to the Haskell network library by addressing several issues and implementing improvements. Their work included updating maintainer lists, correcting receive behavior, and making code modifications related to socket handling, including Windows-specific adjustments. The user also focused on deprecating outdated modules and functions, and refactoring. In addition, the user improved test coverage and added test cases for the connect functionality.
sockethaskellnetworkingnetworkhackage
dense-analysis/ale
Nov 2017 - Feb 2019
Check syntax in Vim/Neovim asynchronously and fix files, with Language Server Protocol (LSP) support
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 PRs, 11 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Evan primarily focused on enhancing the `ale` plugin's Haskell support by integrating various Haskell tooling. This included adding support for formatters like `brittany` and `stylish-haskell`, as well as refactoring tools such as `hlint`. Furthermore, the user improved integration with Haskell's build tools like `stack` and updated existing linters to support these changes. These changes improved the functionality and maintainability of the plugin.
lintervimcheckerneovimautocomplete
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