Evan Harris
Research Mentee at Self-employed
Olney, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEvan Harris is a security-focused software engineer and research mentor with nine years of experience securing agentic systems and hardening integrations with model-centric platforms. He builds developer infrastructure and open-source plugins (notably in the Obsidian ecosystem) while uncovering and responsibly disclosing vulnerabilities in popular ML libraries and MCP deployments. Evan blends hands-on front-end work—improving UX and metrics visualization for projects like promptfoo’s prompt/agent testing UI—with deep red-teaming and evaluative research on AI agents’ safety and self-preservation. His background spans applied security, full-stack engineering, and interpretability research, with practical deployments in healthcare, blockchain, and enterprise tooling. Based in Olney, Maryland, he pairs a biology degree with formal web development training, giving him an unusual cross-disciplinary lens on adversarial behavior and human-centered agent design.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Biology, General, Bachelor’s Degree, Biology, General at St. Mary's College of MarylandFull Stack Web Development Intensive, Full Stack Web Development Intensive at Thinkful
Github Skills (7)
webui10
css10
javascript10
user-interface10
react10
prompt-engineering3
testing3
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
promptfoo/promptfoo
Nov 2024 - Dec 2024
Test your prompts, agents, and RAGs. Red teaming, pentesting, and vulnerability scanning for LLMs. Compare performance of GPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama, and more. Simple declarative configs with command line and CI/CD integration.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 PRs, 8 comments, 1 issue in 1 month
Contributions summary:Evan primarily contributed to the web UI of the project, making several improvements. Their work involved enhancing the user interface by modifying the display of action buttons and adding a pointer cursor for improved user experience. They also focused on bug fixes to prevent the dialog from repeatedly popping up and supporting sorting capabilities on key metrics in the progress view, demonstrating a focus on improving the overall usability and functionality of the application's front end.
cici-cdcicdevaluationevaluation-framework
eharris128/fullstack-friday
Aug 2017 - Mar 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 8 months
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