Evan Meagher
Software Engineer at Samsara
San Rafael, California, United States
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Top SchoolEvan Meagher is a seasoned software engineer with 16 years of experience building and operating large-scale backend and embedded systems across logistics, renewable energy, and utility sectors. Currently on Samsara’s Ingestion team, he designs resilient sensor data pipelines and previously led full-stack efforts for connected equipment that improved safety and efficiency for industrial customers. His background includes founding-team engineering at a hardware startup that was acquired, leading energy-focused projects at X, and contributing to Twitter’s migration to a service-oriented Scala architecture—showing deep distributed-systems and reliability expertise. An active open-source contributor, he has enhanced the npm CLI’s tab-completion and improved authentication/caching in Dropwizard, reflecting a knack for practical developer tooling and infrastructure. Based in San Rafael, he combines hands-on implementation from embedded Linux to cloud services with experience advising energy startups, making him effective at bridging hardware, software, and operational concerns.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Washington
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Github Skills (36)
javascript10
npm10
npm-cli10
testing10
command-line-interface10
user-authentication10
authentication10
java10
dropwizard10
javas10
command-line10
nodejs10
package-manager10
tab-completion10
cli10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
dropwizard/dropwizard
Oct 2015 - Mar 2017
A damn simple library for building production-ready RESTful web services.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 21 commits, 47 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Evan primarily contributed to the dropwizard project by adding features and refactoring the authentication and testing components. The commits show the implementation of caching for the authorizer and support for polymorphic principals. There were also improvements to the testing infrastructure to configure and customize the Jersey client. They also addressed a bug in the request logging functionality.
production-readyweb-services-restfulrestful-webservicesjax-rsproduction
npm/npm
Nov 2010 - Dec 2010
This repository is moving to: https://github.com/npm/cli
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Evan's contributions focused on enhancing the npm CLI's command-line interface, specifically related to tab completion functionality. They added tab completion features for various npm commands such as `view`, `owner`, `uninstall`, `config`, `cache`, `deactivate`, `help`, `install`, `activate`, `rebuild`, `restart`, `outdated`, `deprecate`, and `bundle`. The changes involved creating new completion logic, refactoring existing code, and integrating new utilities to support more comprehensive and accurate command suggestions within the npm CLI.
npm-clinodejsnpmcli
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