Evan Dorn
Founder And Lead Product Developer at InventorEvan LLC
Pasadena, California, United States
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Top SchoolEvan Dorn is a senior software engineer and seasoned technology leader with 16 years of experience building production systems, leading teams, and bringing startups and products to market. Trained as a PhD in Computation and Neural Systems at Caltech, he blends rigorous research instincts with hands-on engineering—recently returning to individual contributor work to architect personalization and online reinforcement learning systems at Wellth. He has founded and scaled companies (Logical Reality Design, InventorEvan, Equibid), led engineering organizations at PayPal/Honey and ProducePay, and is equally at home writing clean code, mentoring engineers, and shaping engineering process. Evan treats technical debt as a strategic tool rather than an enemy, favoring thoughtful, pragmatic tradeoffs that accelerate delivery while protecting long-term quality. Based in Pasadena, he also builds and streams physical inventions, combining product design, CAD, and manufacturing skills with his software and ML expertise.
16 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of TechnologyB.S. B.A. Engineering Biology, B.S. B.A. Engineering Biology at Swarthmore College
Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (96)
xing10
architecture9
linux9
cad9
3d-models9
freecad9
3d-printing9
3d-printer9
cowboy8
netflow8
currency8
fortress8
traffic8
3d8
windows8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
XingFramework/xing-book
Aug 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:338 commits, 6 PRs, 332 pushes in 6 months
gitbookmanualxing
XingFramework/xing-application-base
Sep 2010 - Feb 2016
Contributions:721 commits, 15 PRs, 16 pushes in 5 years 5 months
initialxing
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