Evan Solomon
Product Engineer at Y Combinator
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEvan Solomon is a product-focused engineer with 14 years of experience building and scaling client and backend systems, now shaping product at Y Combinator in San Francisco. He has led cross-platform development and internal platforms at LinkedIn, mentored engineers through promotions, and served as a staff engineer at security startup Material Security. A former founder whose analytics and discovery startup was acquired by LinkedIn, Evan blends startup grit with large-product delivery and end-to-end technical ownership. He contributes to open source—improving Slack’s Hubot adapter with logging, tests, and automated releases—showing attention to reliability and developer workflows. Comfortable across frontend, backend, mobile, and offline processing, he measures outcomes and ships pragmatic solutions that improve deployment and observability.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
New York University
Github Skills (9)
hubot10
coffeescript10
slack10
testing9
gruntjs9
g9
javascript8
bots8
cicd8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
slackapi/hubot-slack
Sep 2013 - Apr 2015
Slack Developer Kit for Hubot
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:39 commits, 7 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Evan made several contributions to the Hubot Slack adapter, encompassing both backend and build/release aspects. They improved logging, fixed issues with message handling, and extracted helper methods for code clarity. The user also automated version releases by implementing a Grunt task, enhancing the project's maintainability and deployment process. Furthermore, they added unit tests to improve the project's reliability and set up a CI/CD configuration.
botdeveloper-kitslack-botslack-appslack
evansolomon/scatter
Mar 2013 - Sep 2013
Contributions:50 commits in 5 months
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