Evan Hackett
Software Engineer at Surge
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEvan Hackett is a software engineer and educator based in Portland, Oregon with 11 years of experience building full-stack and cloud-native systems. He specializes in deploying machine learning models to serverless AWS infrastructure and has applied that expertise at steg.ai and as a backend engineer at Croquet. Evan pairs production engineering with a history of hands-on teaching—developing curriculum and instructing at PDX Code Guild, Hack Reactor, and youth programs—so he’s comfortable explaining complex technical concepts to varied audiences. His background includes building accessibility-focused apps like UEB Prep (React Native) and practical full-stack web products in fast-paced Agile teams. He holds formal training from Hack Reactor and a CS degree from Portland State University, blending rigorous bootcamp pragmatism with academic foundations. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who moves models from research into reliable, maintainable deployments.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering Immersive, Software Engineering Immersive at Hack ReactorBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Portland State UniversityComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Oregon Institute of Technology
Github Skills (53)
tiddlywiki9
react8
react-navigation8
automata8
self-contained8
javascript8
encoder8
react-native8
user-friendly7
windows7
linux7
simultaneous7
shell7
html6
rust6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
evanhackett/pandemic-workshop-prototype
Apr 2020 - Sep 2021
Infectious disease simulator
Contributions:53 commits, 6 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 5 months
simulatorsimulationdiseaseinfectious-disease
evanhackett/cellular-automata-creator
Jan 2017 - Mar 2020
Create your own cellular automata!
Contributions:28 commits, 1 PR, 20 pushes in 3 years 1 month
cellularautomatacellular-automataparty
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