Evan Hildreth
Senior Software Engineer at Adjacent
Greenville, South Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolEvan Hildreth is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable backend systems and pragmatic tooling that make teams and users more productive. He specializes in WordPress ecosystems, headless architectures, and third-party integrations—having shipped custom plugins and Gutenberg blocks for enterprise clients like News Corp and the NBA. At Panorama Education he led data ingestion and mapping work that eliminated manual corrections and restored enterprise dashboard access by resolving query-timeout issues. Comfortable leading remote teams, Evan pairs hands-on development with mentoring and documentation to keep projects maintainable and on schedule. He also contributes to open-source projects, notably enhancing comment functionality in a Next.js + WordPress starter that leverages WPGraphQL. Based in Greenville, SC, he describes himself as a creative analyst who treats binary as lumber and code as his hammer.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics - Computer Science Computer Science, Mathematics - Computer Science Computer Science at Furman University
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
wordpress10
nextjs10
wpgraphql10
wordpress-graphql10
graphql10
react10
formik9
api9
headless-cms7
tailwindcss7
html6
php6
responsive-design6
css6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
WebDevStudios/nextjs-wordpress-starter
Jan 2021 - Feb 2021
A headless starter for WordPress powered by Next.js.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 52 commits, 9 PRs in 15 days
Contributions summary:Evan focused on adding and refactoring comment functionality within a Next.js and WordPress starter project. They implemented GraphQL queries and mutations to retrieve and post comments using the WPGraphQL plugin. They also integrated a comment form into the blog and page templates and modified the display of content using `dangerouslySetInnerHTML`. Furthermore, the user performed various refactoring tasks, including updating API endpoints, to support the new comment features.
next-jstailwindcsswp-graphqlheadlessjotai
WebDevStudios/wds-site-documentation
Feb 2021 - Mar 2022
A plugin to host site documentation in an easily accessible place in the WordPress dashboard.
Contributions:40 commits, 3 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year
placehostwordpress-apiaccessiblewordpress
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