Evan Smith
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolEvan Smith is a software engineer with 10 years of experience, currently building scalable backend systems for Azure at Microsoft from Portland, Oregon. He has full-stack experience from Alarm.com where he shipped cloud-based security management features using React and Spring, and has a strong foundation in software design honed as a CS tutor and teaching assistant at Western Washington University. Evan contributes to notable open-source work on the Arrow Kotlin library, improving Eval performance and typeclass instances—demonstrating both pragmatic engineering and a taste for functional programming. He prioritizes work-life balance, makes time for guitar and fitness, and enjoys translating academic concepts like machine learning into practical code.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Western Washington University
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Github Skills (11)
kotlin10
functional-programming10
applicative10
typeclass10
arrow-js9
data-structure9
arrows9
structures9
apache-arrow9
data-structures9
monads9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
arrow-kt/arrow
Oct 2017 - Jun 2018
Λrrow - The perfect companion for your Kotlin journey - Inspired by functional, data-oriented and concurrent programming
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 10 PRs, 9 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Evan primarily contributed to the `arrow-kt/arrow` repository by implementing instances and improving the performance and stack safety of the `Eval` data type, a core component of the Arrow library. They refactored and improved code generation for annotations, including `@instance`, `@higherkind`, and supporting type argument bounds. Furthermore, they added new instances for `Tuple2` and associated type classes, improving the library's capabilities.
kotlin-dslfunctional-programmingtypeclassesarrowfor-comprehension
m-language/m-jvm
Oct 2018 - Oct 2019
The jvm backend for the M programming language
Contributions:116 commits, 8 PRs, 90 pushes in 1 year
javabackendjvmprogramming-language
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