Evan Lynch
Senior Software Engineer at iZotope, Inc.
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEvan Lynch is a Senior Software Engineer based in Greater Boston with 14 years of experience building robust backend systems at iZotope, where he progressed from Software Engineer to senior technical contributor. He holds both a BS and an MEng from MIT in Physics, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, blending rigorous academic training with pragmatic product-focused engineering. Evan contributes to notable open-source work in computational musicology, adding features and improving core variant-and-stream handling in the well-regarded music21 toolkit. His strengths include designing maintainable backend features and improving domain-specific libraries, especially where precise data modeling matters. Colleagues describe him as quietly effective—prioritizing correctness and subtle usability improvements over flash—and he’s comfortable operating across both researchy domains and production services.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (11)
music-theory10
python10
object-oriented-programming9
music-information-retrieval9
algorithms8
data-structures8
algorithm8
data-structure8
web-framework7
git6
version-control6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cuthbertLab/music21
May 2012 - Aug 2012
music21 is a Toolkit for Computational Musicology
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Evan contributed to the `music21` project by adding new functionality and improving existing features. They implemented the `.french` property in `music21/pitch.py`, providing support for French musical note naming conventions. The user also added the `mergeVariantStreams()` function within `music21/variant.py`, which is crucial for managing and merging variations of musical scores. Additionally, the user introduced significant improvements to the variant and stream classes.
dtwpythonmusicologymusic21music
eflynch/dotfiles
May 2014 - Dec 2019
Contributions:10 commits, 3 pushes in 5 years 7 months
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