Evan Huus
Developer at Wireshark Development Team
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolEvan Huus is a pragmatic developer with 13 years of experience building reliable backend systems and deployment tooling, currently contributing at OpsLevel and Tidra AI while serving as a long-standing core developer for Wireshark. He has led engineering teams at Shopify and shipped features improving deployment safety and observability, and his open-source work spans high-impact projects like graphql-ruby, Wireshark, and resiliency libraries in Go. Evan excels at hardening code—fixing memory issues, improving input coercion, and removing dead paths—and brings a strong testing and refactoring discipline to reduce bugs and improve performance. Comfortable across languages and ecosystems, he’s contributed deep fixes to low-level C projects and higher-level Ruby and Go libraries alike. Based in Ottawa, he pairs engineering rigor with creativity off-work as an amateur musician and actor, which he says helps him “end up with the right regrets.” Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful reviews, pragmatic architecture, and steady delivery in complex codebases.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Honours, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Honours, Computer Science at Carleton University
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Github Skills (46)
ruby-rails10
deploying10
text-editor10
circuit-breaker10
vimscript10
plugin-development10
testing10
rails10
c1110
editor10
wpgraphql10
ruby10
c1710
go10
customisation10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
eapache/go-resiliency
Nov 2014 - Jun 2022
Resiliency patterns for golang
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 13 reviews, 69 commits in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Evan primarily worked on implementing the circuit breaker and semaphore resiliency patterns within the Go-based project. Their contributions involved writing core code for the breaker, adding tests, and refining the implementation. They also introduced the semaphore and deadline patterns, extending the library's capabilities for handling various failure scenarios. Additionally, the user refactored and optimized the existing code base to improve efficiency and maintainability.
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terryma/vim-multiple-cursors
Jan 2015 - Dec 2018
True Sublime Text style multiple selections for Vim
Role in this project:Software Engineer (Vim Plugin Developer)
Software Engineer (Vim Plugin Developer)Contributions:44 PRs, 36 pushes, 17 branches in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Evan primarily focused on enhancing the `vim-multiple-cursors` plugin, addressing several bugs and implementing new features. Their contributions included fixing issues related to cursors getting out of sync in insert mode and improving the handling of multi-character maps. The user also worked on optimizing the plugin's performance, removing lag, and ensuring proper integration with insert mode mappings. Furthermore, they added new tests to cover potential bugs within the plugin.
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