Evan Krause
Software Engineer at Meta
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEvan Krause is a software engineer with nine years of experience, currently building developer-focused tools at Meta from his base in Seattle. He’s a full-stack contributor with a strong emphasis on frontend UX and infrastructure, demonstrated by improvements to UI, testing, build processes, and GitHub Enterprise support on notable open-source projects like Sapling and Atom/Nuclide. Evan’s work often bridges polish and practicality—adding user-facing features (context menus, bug report workflows) while also hardening developer experience behind the scenes. He started as a plugin developer and multiple internships before joining Meta, giving him a breadth of experience across product types and codebases. That blend of user-centric UI work and backend integration makes him particularly effective at shipping stable, usable tools for other engineers.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (21)
atom-editor10
javascript10
develop10
ide10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
mercurial10
react10
flow-control9
work-flow9
control-flow9
flowtype9
lessc8
code-formatting8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/sapling
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
A Scalable, User-Friendly Source Control System.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 58 commits, 16 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Evan primarily contributed to the frontend and infrastructure aspects of the project. They enhanced the user interface by adding new UI elements and features, such as a context menu and a bug report button. Furthermore, the user modified the build process and added support for GitHub Enterprise, indicating a focus on improving developer experience and expanding the project's compatibility with different hosting environments. These contributions also included improvements to the testing strategy and overall application stability, along with bug fixes.
control-systemscalablesource-controluser-friendly
facebookarchive/nuclide
Sep 2017 - Dec 2018
An open IDE for web and native mobile development, built on top of Atom
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 106 commits, 3 branches in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Evan primarily worked on enhancing the Nuclide IDE, built on top of Atom. Their contributions focused on improving the debugger functionality, specifically implementing a dropdown menu for connection selection and addressing related issues. Additionally, they contributed to the Mercurial integration, adding features such as an hg fold command, support for reordering commits, and improving the user experience. These contributions spanned both front-end and back-end aspects of the IDE, with modifications in JavaScript, Less, and Mercurial-related RPC code.
mobile-developmentatomideon-top
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