Evan Williams
Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn
United States
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Top SchoolEvan Williams is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building and hardening backend systems at LinkedIn, where he progressed from intern to senior engineer. He specializes in scalable, asynchronous Java services and DevOps automation—improving frameworks like Rest.li and streamlining release pipelines by migrating builds from Gradle/Travis/Bintray to GitHub Actions and JFrog Artifactory. Evan combines deep server-side coding and testing with practical release engineering, ensuring features and deployments behave correctly under real-world conditions. His background includes full-stack web work, embedded test-lab tooling, and strong academic performance in Computer Science and Engineering, reflecting both hands-on hardware-adjacent experience and disciplined software craftsmanship.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyComputer Science and Engineering, 3.94, Computer Science and Engineering, 3.94 at University of Nevada-Reno
English
Stackoverflow
154reputation
8kreached
6answers
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Github Skills (27)
gradle10
api-rest10
github-ci10
back-end-development10
api-design10
restful-api10
bash10
cicd10
java10
javas10
restful10
rest10
rest-api10
gradlew10
githubaction-workflow10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
linkedin/rest.li
May 2018 - Oct 2022
Rest.li is a REST+JSON framework for building robust, scalable service architectures using dynamic discovery and simple asynchronous APIs.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:164 reviews, 176 commits, 184 PRs in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Evan primarily focused on improving the Rest.li framework, contributing various test cases and making code modifications to the server-side implementation. Key contributions include removing request query parameters from the response location header for create and batch create operations, and the addition of functionality to handle features such as service errors, success status codes and methods, and parameter-level service errors. The user was also responsible for fixing code related to returning entities for partial update methods.
asynchronous
linkedin/parseq
Apr 2020 - Dec 2021
Asynchronous Java made easier
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 29 commits, 60 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Evan focused on automating the release and deployment process for the ParSeq project. Their contributions included upgrading the Gradle build tool, setting up automated releases using Travis CI and Bintray/JFrog Artifactory. They also addressed issues with the Travis CI configuration, including ensuring proper tag handling and rolling back failed releases. The user migrated the release process from Bintray to JFrog Artifactory and replaced Travis CI with GitHub Actions for continuous integration.
asynchronousjava
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