Evan Relf
Senior Software Engineer at Mercury
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolEvan Relf is a Senior Software Engineer in Portland, Oregon with 13 years of experience building foundational systems and developer tooling, currently working on ACH and checks at Mercury. He combines pragmatic, rigorous software craftsmanship with a focus on backend reliability and payment systems. His background includes roles at Arista Networks and Awake Security, and early internships that grounded him in systems and security-aware engineering. An active open-source contributor, he improved Haskell syntax highlighting in the popular Kakoune editor—an example of his attention to developer experience and language-level detail. Colleagues describe him as a practical engineer who values correctness and maintainability while shipping production-ready systems.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
San Juan Hills High SchoolComputer Science, Computer Science at Saddleback College
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
303reputation
9kreached
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Github Skills (17)
c-language10
text-editor10
kakoune10
cplus10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
haskell10
modals9
modal-dialog9
modal-windows9
macos6
callback6
nodejs6
python6
asynchronous6
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
mawww/kakoune
Sep 2019 - Dec 2019
mawww's experiment for a better code editor
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 10 commits, 6 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Evan primarily contributed to enhancing the Haskell syntax highlighting within the Kakoune text editor. Their work involved adding and refining highlighting rules for Haskell-specific features like function names in type signatures, quasiquotes, deriving strategies, and the `family` keyword. The user addressed highlighting inconsistencies and improved the accuracy of highlighting various Haskell code constructs.
vimkakounec-plus-plusmodal-editingconsole-application
evanrelf/indigo
Jun 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:445 pushes, 27 branches in 2 years 9 months
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