Evie S
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolEvie S is a UK-based Site Reliability Engineer with nine years of experience building resilient cloud systems, currently working at AWS while also having held roles at Cisco and Splunk. She blends systems engineering and SRE practices with hands-on development, demonstrated by significant open-source contributions to popular shell prompts like spaceship-prompt and spacefish where she added cross-platform battery support, Rust version features, and improved prompt performance. A former visiting computer science lecturer and First Class Computer Science graduate from Birmingham City University, she pairs technical depth with clear communication and teaching experience. Evie’s work often sits at the intersection of developer tooling and infrastructure, improving day-to-day UX for engineers through small but impactful UX and performance refinements. Notably, her open-source contributions show a focus on portability and ergonomics—bringing features like Windows ACPI battery support into Unix-centric tooling.
9 years of coding experience
📝 · Bachelor's degree with Honours, Computer Science, First Class, 📝 · Bachelor's degree with Honours, Computer Science, First Class at Birmingham City University
English
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Github Skills (24)
scripting10
script10
customisation10
customizing10
prompting10
sh10
rust10
shell10
zsh10
testing9
prompt9
oh-my-zsh9
automations8
automation8
terminal-emulator8
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
matchai/spacefish
Jul 2018 - Nov 2018
🚀🐟 The fish shell prompt for astronauts
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 7 PRs, 2 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Evie primarily contributed to the development of Spacefish, a fish shell prompt, by implementing several new features and enhancing existing functionality. Their work included creating a hostname section, exit code section, time section, pyenv version section, and battery status display (including Windows ACPI battery support). They also integrated a jobs section to display background processes, added a verbose version feature for the Rust section, and made improvements to the prompt's overall structure and color scheme.
clibashshell-promptastronautsfish
spaceship-prompt/spaceship-prompt
Oct 2018 - Nov 2018
🚀✨ Minimalistic, powerful and extremely customizable Zsh prompt
Role in this project:Developer
DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 13 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Evie contributed to improving the `spaceship-prompt` Zsh prompt. Their work included refactoring the `rust` and `battery` sections to enhance performance and functionality. They also implemented a feature to toggle verbose rust version display, and improved the logic of the battery display. These changes aimed to optimize the user experience and expand the prompt's capabilities.
zsh-promptzsh-plugincustomizableshell-promptshell-theme
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