Evan Typanski
Senior Open Source Developer at Corelight
Richmond, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolEvan Typanski is a Senior Open Source Developer with nine years of engineering experience, currently contributing to Zeek and Spicy at Corelight from Raleigh, NC. He brings deep systems and compiler expertise from leading C/C++ work on OpenText’s Fortify static analysis engine and adding PLSQL support for a new backend. Evan has a strong track record of performance and memory-efficiency improvements—evidenced by large reductions in memory use at Yext and targeted fixes for redundant allocations in the high-profile rust-clippy project. Comfortable across languages and domains (from microcontroller research at UVA to Ruby on Rails and Java), he combines low-level rigor with pragmatic product-focused delivery. Colleagues rely on him for technically complex integrations and durable open-source contributions that improve code quality and tooling.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Virginia
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Github Skills (5)
linting10
clippy10
rust10
testing10
code-optimization9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
rust-lang/rust-clippy
May 2022 - Jan 2023
A bunch of lints to catch common mistakes and improve your Rust code. Book: https://doc.rust-lang.org/clippy/
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 6 PRs, 4 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Evan focused on improving the `rust-clippy` project by addressing code quality and performance. They fixed warnings related to redundant memory allocations, specifically for types like `Rc<Box<str>>`. The user also added tests to cover more cases of redundant allocations and refined the linting rules to catch additional potential issues. Additionally, they added necessary curlies to `match` arms to clarify code execution and improve style.
rustlint
evantypanski/dotfiles
Jul 2018 - Jan 2025
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 7 months
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