Evan Stegall
Software Engineer at Stripe
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEvan Stegall is a Seattle-based software engineer with 14 years of experience building robust backend systems and test automation, now contributing at Stripe. He has a strong open-source track record across high-profile projects like Stripe SDKs and MongoDB drivers, and has improved production-facing systems such as a gRPC/REST Kafka proxy (kafka-pixy) by adding configurability and header support. Comfortable across languages (Python, Java, Ruby, PHP) and distributed systems, Evan pairs feature work with careful test infrastructure and failure-mode coverage. He brings hands-on experience from startups to enterprise internships and a CS degree from Rice, and uniquely combines deep API/library maintenance with practical data-platform and messaging expertise.
14 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Graduate, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Graduate at Rice UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science
Github Skills (45)
stripe-api10
unit-testing10
api-rest10
software-design10
python10
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
testing10
configuration-management10
kafka10
proxy10
java10
mongodb-database10
ruby10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
contribsys/einhorn
Jun 2012 - Nov 2018
Einhorn: the language-independent shared socket manager
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:44 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Evan primarily focused on maintaining and improving the `einhorn` project. They implemented fixes related to reloading and environment restoration, ensuring proper operation during upgrades and restarts. The user also refactored the socket handling by switching from `EINHORN_FDS` to `EINHORN_FD_N/EINHORN_FD_COUNT`. Additionally, the user updated the codebase to use minitest for testing and bumped the version of the project.
independenttcpsocketlanguage-independent
stripe/stripe-php
Apr 2012 - Jul 2013
PHP library for the Stripe API.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:35 commits, 1 comment in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Evan primarily focused on enhancing the PHP library for the Stripe API. Their contributions included adding new API endpoints for transfers and customer discounts, along with corresponding test cases. They also addressed bugs, such as fixing an issue related to the InvalidRequestError constructor, and performed version bumps. Moreover, the user improved the test suite by incorporating features like random string generation and adapting it to find dependencies installed by Composer.
apistripestripe-sdkphppayment
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