Evie Salomon
Founder & CEO at BackBit
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolEvie Salomon is a founder and CEO based in San Francisco with eight years of professional experience building consumer hardware and firmware for retro gaming. As creator of the BackBit Pro Cartridge and Chip Tester, she has turned a passion for music and vintage systems into a small product line that supports over 30 platforms. Her background includes gameplay engineering and systems programming at studios like KIXEYE and Cryptic, giving her deep hands-on technical chops across hardware-adjacent software and embedded tooling. Evie combines entrepreneurial grit with maker sensibilities, shipping polished devices that bridge nostalgia and modern usability. Notably, her path from front-desk roles at a digital game museum to leading a niche hardware startup highlights an ability to translate community insight into viable products.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at San Francisco State University
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Github Skills (13)
cartridge7
combine7
single-file6
x-plane4
eagle4
paradox3
thunderbird3
react3
act3
commerce2
ecommerce2
nodejs2
mono2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
evietron/BackBit-Convert
Oct 2022 - Mar 2025
Tools to combine multi-file formats into single-file formats compatible with the BackBit Pro Cartridge
Contributions:4 reviews, 3 PRs, 45 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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evietron/D2EFtoD64
Dec 2019 - May 2022
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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