Evan Chen
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolEvan Chen is a mathematics-focused developer and educator with 12 years of experience blending rigorous problem-solving, pedagogy, and tooling. Currently Head Writer at OMEGA and longtime leader of OTIS Math, he has guided selection testing and training for US math olympiad teams while mentoring and designing exams across MIT PRIMES and MOP. With a PhD pursuit in mathematics at MIT and hands-on developer experience (including designing a markup parser at Expii and improving LaTeX/text-processing automation in the open-source napkin repo), he routinely translates mathematical clarity into reliable tooling. He describes himself playfully as a “math olympiad coach and writer of spaghetti code,” reflecting a pragmatic engineer who prioritizes results over elegance. Based in Boston, he combines deep content expertise with practical automation to scale educational impact.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
University of California, BerkeleyHigh School, High School at Irvington High SchoolSan José State UniversityPhD, Mathematics, PhD, Mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMathematics, Mathematics at Harvard University
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Github Skills (11)
latex10
tex10
python10
scripting9
text-processing9
multiple-inheritance6
inheritance6
django6
django-templates6
automated-build5
git5
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
vEnhance/napkin
May 2015 - Jan 2023
An Infinitely Large Napkin
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:36 reviews, 750 commits, 184 PRs in 7 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Evan primarily contributed to the `napkin` repository by improving the text processing capabilities. Their work focused on enhancing the LaTeX files through implementing and refining a script, likely in Python, that corrected title case issues within the documents. The user also made changes to support files like `extras.asy`, and introduced automated processes. The changes indicate a focus on improving the quality and consistency of the project's LaTeX output.
mathphysicspythontextbooklatex
vEnhance/karl
Sep 2014 - Oct 2016
Contributions:12 commits, 4 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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