Ivy Evans
Staff Software Engineer, AI DevTools at Gusto
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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RockstarIvy Evans is a staff software engineer and experienced engineering leader with a decade of building and scaling developer-facing systems, currently focused on AI DevTools at Gusto. She blends systems thinking, automation at scale, and developer productivity to simplify complex architectures and reduce operational toil across large organizations. Ivy has founded and led multiple startups and technical teams, shipping everything from blockchain mining OSes to financial analytics platforms and high-throughput Rails services. At Gusto she’s driven measurable improvements—CI/CD speedups, infrastructure cost reductions, modularization strategies, and more reliable payment systems—while exploring how LLMs can reshape developer workflows. An active contributor to Ruby tooling (notably fixes and coverage work on lograge), she brings pragmatic engineering paired with product-minded leadership. Based in Portland, she’s passionate about human-centered tech and connecting with curious minds who want to rethink how software gets built.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
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chef-infra
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Github Skills (16)
testing10
rubocop10
ruby-rails10
logging10
rails10
ruby10
chef-infra9
css6
apt-get6
php6
codeigniter6
vagrant6
zurb-foundation6
rubygems6
apt6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
roidrage/lograge
Nov 2021 - Nov 2021
An attempt to tame Rails' default policy to log everything.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 20 commits, 2 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Ivy primarily contributed to bug fixes and code improvements within the `lograge` library. Their work addressed issues such as `NameError` and `RuntimeError` related to missing dependencies and iteration problems within the `Graylog2` formatter. They also applied automated Rubocop style corrections across multiple files, including specs and core library files, and added basic coverage setup.
ruby-on-railseverythingpolicyrailsruby
ivy/vim-ginkgo
Dec 2017 - Apr 2021
Go syntax highlighting and snippets for Ginkgo specs and matchers.
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 3 years 4 months
golangginkgospecsgosnippets
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