Evan Feenstra
Technical Architect at Fognet
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEvan Feenstra is a Technical Architect in Seattle with 12 years of experience building real-time, collaborative interfaces and decentralized systems using TypeScript, React/Svelte, Node, Go, Rust, and distributed ledgers like Bitcoin and IOTA. He leads architecture and development at Sphinx Chat, creating a Lightning-based decentralized chat, while also teaching web technologies at UW and running community mesh network projects through Fognet. His background blends human-centered design (MS HCDE) with hands-on physical computing and audio/web engineering, enabling thoughtful UX for complex peer-to-peer and IoT systems. Past roles as CTO and founder show a pattern of shipping end-to-end products—from supply-chain telematics to interactive music and education platforms—often integrating websockets, Bluetooth, and web audio. Colleagues rely on him to translate research-driven accessibility and inclusion goals into robust, low-latency distributed applications.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degrees, Psychology, Music, Bachelor’s Degrees, Psychology, Music at Pitzer CollegeMaster’s Degree, Human Centered Design and Engineering, Master’s Degree, Human Centered Design and Engineering at University of WashingtonWeb Application Engineering, Web Application Development, Web Application Engineering, Web Application Development at PDX Code Guild
English, Spanish, Nepali
Github Skills (178)
python10
lightning-network10
chat10
modular10
iota10
golang10
lightning10
nostr-protocol10
sphinx10
nostr10
bitcoin10
nodejs10
spec10
open-source10
shimmer10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Evanfeenstra/sound_app
Dec 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:15 commits, 11 pushes in 1 month
Evanfeenstra/rust-lightning
Mar 2023 - Jan 2024
A highly modular Bitcoin Lightning library written in Rust. It's rust-lightning, not Rusty's Lightning!
Contributions:111 pushes, 12 branches in 10 months
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