Evan Patton
Finance Committee Member at Town of Canton, MA
Canton, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolEvan Patton is a lead software engineer and longtime contributor to MIT App Inventor, bringing 14 years of experience building mobile and web tooling with a focus on Java, JavaScript, Android and iOS. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with research in AI for mobile platforms and a background in semantic web and distributed knowledge systems. At MIT CSAIL he drives feature development, cloud maintenance, user support and education while mentoring students, and his open-source iOS work includes substantive UI and AIComponentKit improvements to the widely used appinventor-sources project. Beyond tech, he serves in local civic and nonprofit leadership roles, including finance committee member for the Town of Canton and chairman/treasurer positions, reflecting an uncommon blend of technical depth and community governance.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Github Skills (10)
mobile-application10
swift10
user-interface10
ios10
mobile-development10
testing9
api9
debugging9
apim9
objective-c8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mit-cml/appinventor-sources
Jul 2016 - Jan 2023
MIT App Inventor Public Open Source
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:896 reviews, 475 commits, 1082 PRs in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Evan contributed to the MIT App Inventor for iOS project, implementing new features and fixing existing bugs within the AIComponentKit framework. Their work included adding support for the Texting component, providing better handling of file asset URLs in APKs, fixing display issues, and resolving inconsistencies in the handling of UI interactions in the app. Furthermore, the user worked on adding missing properties and methods to the various UI components and incorporated design improvements across the board.
appinventor
mit-dig/punya
May 2013 - Oct 2021
Punya Framework powered by MIT App Inventor Technology
Contributions:5 reviews, 123 commits, 22 PRs in 8 years 6 months
appinventor
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