Evan Purkhiser
Software Engineer at getsentry
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarEvan Purkhiser is a software engineer based in New York with 14 years of experience building reliable back-end systems and polished front-end documentation for developer tools. He contributes across the stack—from refactoring core framework behavior in Kohana to adding AIFF support and robust ID3 handling in the popular mutagen audio metadata library. At Sentry he has improved developer docs, added cron monitoring features, and refined UI and typing, demonstrating comfort with both product-facing features and internal tooling. Evan pairs pragmatic code cleanup and test-driven enhancements with clear technical writing, making complex setups approachable. Outside of engineering he DJs trance and hybrid hardcore, hinting at a creative, performance-minded approach to problem solving.
14 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
693reputation
52kreached
6answers
6questions
Github Skills (41)
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debug10
javascript10
id310
python10
back-end-development10
django10
testing10
file-parsing10
aiff10
file-format10
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Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
getsentry/sentry
Aug 2017 - Jan 2023
Developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7663 reviews, 3237 commits, 10329 PRs in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Evan's contributions focused on implementing new functionality within the sentry/sentry repository, with a focus on adding and integrating components for cron monitoring. This included creating stub consumers and defining a new topic to handle clock ticks and associated tasks. The user was also refactoring the UI to use Link components throughout and improving typing within the codebase. Additionally, the user was responsible for ensuring correct parameterization and the functionality of the Uptime Alert rule creation and edit page.
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getsentry/develop
May 2020 - Dec 2022
Role in this project:Frontend Developer
Frontend DeveloperContributions:23 reviews, 12 commits, 35 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Evan primarily contributed to the frontend documentation project, implementing and maintaining UI components. This included enhancements to the code block styling, as well as adding and updating sidebar links and documentation on frontend upgrade policies. The user also removed unused packages and implemented changes to the project's prettier configuration.
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