Evan Lovely
Chief Technology Officer at Knapsack
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolEvan Lovely is a seasoned technology leader and Chief Technology Officer based in Portland, Oregon, with 13 years of experience building component-driven design systems and developer tooling. He leads product and engineering at Knapsack, helping teams ship consistent, pattern-based applications faster, and hosts The Design Systems Podcast to bridge design and development. Previously a CTO at Basalt and a software architect at Phase2, Evan has implemented large-scale front-end systems for global brands and introduced Node.js tooling and Pattern Lab practices across organizations. An active open-source contributor, he’s worked on the widely used Pattern Lab Node project integrating Twig and HTML rendering, reflecting hands-on full-stack chops. Outside of work he’s an avid outdoorsman—bringing a pragmatic, team-oriented leadership style and a knack for turning design systems into real, reusable engineering assets.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BA Psychology Media Arts, BA Psychology Media Arts at University of Montana
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Github Skills (13)
php10
nodejs10
twig10
javascript9
system8
system-design8
css6
lerna6
macos6
npm6
google-chrome6
react-native6
applescript6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
pattern-lab/patternlab-node
Jan 2016 - Apr 2020
The Node version of Pattern Lab
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:62 commits, 16 PRs, 30 pushes in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Evan contributed to the Pattern Lab Node project by implementing features and resolving issues related to the Twig PHP engine. They worked on setting up the Twig PHP engine, including its core functionalities and necessary configurations. The user's contributions include code changes related to rendering HTML views, and various files, showing experience in integrating this engine and fixing related bugs.
javascriptatomic-designnodejsdesign-systemspattern-lab
EvanLovely/pattern-lab-starter
Feb 2015 - Jan 2019
A starting place for using the prototyping tool, Pattern Lab, in tandem with a Drupal theme. Can be used standalone as well.
Contributions:23 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
placeprototyping-tooltandemtwigprototyping
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