Evan Rolfe
Stevenage, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarEvan Rolfe is a backend software developer with over a decade of experience, primarily focused on Go and reliable server-side systems. Based in Stevenage, UK, he brings 12 years in professional engineering with a proven track record of shipping robust APIs and refactoring complex backend components. He has contributed to notable open-source infrastructure like the openSUSE open-build-service, improving API interactions and web UI flows around public keys and SSL certificate management in a Ruby on Rails codebase. Comfortable across testing frameworks and mocking external dependencies, he blends pragmatic engineering with attention to edge cases and testability. Colleagues would describe him as a steady problem solver who prefers clean, maintainable code and measurable improvements to system reliability.
12 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (19)
api-rest10
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
rails10
ruby10
api10
rest-api10
ruby-on-rails10
xml9
git8
html6
mitmproxy6
go6
google-chrome-extension6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
openSUSE/open-build-service
Dec 2016 - Sep 2017
Build and distribute Linux packages from sources in an automatic, consistent and reproducible way #obs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:173 commits, 232 PRs, 58 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Evan implemented and refactored several components of the API, focusing on the web UI and API interactions for public keys and SSL certificates within a Ruby on Rails environment. They restructured controllers, models, and views to support the download of public keys and certificates, adding specifications and addressing various edge cases. The changes involved setting up tests with webmock/rspec for mocking external dependencies.
pkgbuildrpmarchlinuxkiwideb
evanrolfe/trayce_agent
May 2023 - Apr 2025
Contributions:36 PRs, 412 pushes, 41 branches in 1 year 10 months
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