Evan Johnson
Software Engineer at Palantir Technologies
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolEvan Johnson is a software engineer based in New York with 10 years of experience building front-end and full-stack web applications across finance, data platforms, and crypto. A dual Computer Science and Music Technology graduate from NYU, he blends technical rigor with creative problem solving—evident from early music production and DJ work through to polished UI contributions. He has shipped features at Palantir on Foundry and helped build web infrastructure and UI component libraries at FactSet and Ribbon. At RenGenX he focused on frontend for a decentralized security token exchange, and his open-source work includes accessibility and usability improvements to Palantir’s popular Blueprint React UI toolkit. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who cares about accessibility, documentation, and readable code. He brings a mix of product-minded frontend craft, cross-team collaboration, and a background that spans studios and server rooms.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science & Music Technology, 2016, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science & Music Technology, 2016 at NYU
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Github Skills (23)
accessibility10
ui-components10
typescript10
ui-design10
uid10
component-kit10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
blueprint9
timer9
documentation8
swift6
background-color6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
palantir/blueprint
Aug 2021 - Oct 2021
A React-based UI toolkit for the web
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:184 reviews, 4 commits, 52 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Evan primarily contributed to the user interface of the Blueprint React-based UI toolkit. Their work focused on improving accessibility by adding `aria-label` attributes to various UI elements like buttons and implementing accessibility features for dialog components. They also made changes to enhance the usability of the documentation website by fixing hotkey navigation and adding affordances to the icon selector. Further contributions included fixes for slider behavior and table focus, along with refactoring UI components to improve code readability.
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evansjohnson/blueprint
Aug 2021 - May 2024
A React-based UI toolkit for the web
Contributions:16 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 10 months
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