Evan Plaice
Grand Lake, Colorado, United States
Summary
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RockstarEvan Plaice is a senior full-stack web application developer with 16 years of technical experience and 7+ years in full-time professional roles, combining mission-critical government systems work with prolific open-source maintenance. He modernizes legacy stacks to contemporary architectures—rewriting ASP.NET MVT to ASP.NET Core, porting Python CGI to FastAPI, and migrating on-prem SQL to managed AWS RDS—while implementing OAuth2 integrations and security updates to meet federal standards. An active OSS author and maintainer, he founded multiple GitHub orgs (VanillaWC, VanillaES), published web components and tooling, and helped land ESM compatibility into ESLint core. He brings strong testing and QA discipline, having built integration suites (xUnit, pytest) and improved live-reload and CLI test coverage on popular projects like patternlab-node and live-server. Based in Grand Lake, Colorado, Evan prefers deep technical work with high impact and has a practical history of shipping robust, auditable systems for both government and commercial customers. A former field technician and avionics/flight-simulator engineer, he pairs hands-on hardware experience with modern web platform expertise, which informs pragmatic solutions across the stack.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
14,032reputation
6.6mreached
151answers
21questions
google-sheets
top-5%
google-api
top-5%
google-sheets-api
top-5%
google-app-engine
top-5%
csv
top-1%
yaml
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Github Skills (25)
javascript10
jquery10
testing10
mochajs10
csv10
test-automation10
google-sheets-api9
google-api9
supertest9
python9
google-app-engine9
pdf9
preprocessor9
yaml9
google-sheets9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
tapio/live-server
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
A simple development http server with live reload capability.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 10 comments in 9 days
Contributions summary:Evan primarily focused on enhancing the testing capabilities of the `live-server` project. They introduced new test cases for CSS reload functionality and command-line interface usage, though the CLI tests were not fully implemented. Additionally, the user moved existing example code to a dedicated testing folder and updated references accordingly, streamlining the testing structure. Their work significantly improved test coverage and the overall robustness of the project.
reloadlive-reloadcapabilityliveserver
pattern-lab/patternlab-node
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
The Node version of Pattern Lab
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Evan primarily contributed to the testing infrastructure of the project. They added and modified test files, including those for basic usage, CSS reload functionality, and command-line interface (CLI) features. Their work involved setting up tests using a testing framework (likely Mocha based on the context), creating test assertions, and adapting examples for testing purposes, demonstrating a focus on ensuring the functionality and reliability of the live-server.
javascriptatomic-designnodejsdesign-systemspattern-lab
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