Jim Evans
Principal Member Of Technical Staff at Salesforce
Greater Tampa Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJim Evans is a Principal Member of Technical Staff with over 30 years in the computer industry and more than two decades focused on software, currently shaping platform and testing strategy at Salesforce in the Greater Tampa Bay Area. He brings deep QA and test engineering roots from Microsoft and Numara, and has progressed into technical leadership roles since 2012, blending hands-on engineering with architecture and process improvement. An active open-source contributor and Selenium core committer, he has influenced the W3C WebDriver spec—particularly Shadow DOM integration—demonstrating expertise in browser automation standards. Jim combines industrial engineering training from Georgia Tech with practical experience shipping reliable, large-scale test frameworks, and he often operates at the intersection of specification, tooling, and implementation.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BIE, Industrial Engineering, BIE, Industrial Engineering at Georgia Institute of TechnologyB. I. E., B. I. E. at Georgia Tech
Github Skills (8)
html10
spec10
automation10
automations10
webdriver10
specification10
remote-control10
javascript9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
w3c/webdriver
Jan 2021 - Nov 2021
Remote control interface that enables introspection and control of user agents.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Jim primarily contributed to the specification's documentation, focusing on the Shadow DOM integration. Their commits involve modifying the `index.html` file, adding and correcting definitions related to shadow roots, shadow root identifiers, and the associated API commands. These modifications include adjustments to URLs, error handling, and the specification of serialization methods, suggesting a deep understanding of the W3C WebDriver standard.
browsercontrol-interfaceremote-controlagentsw3c-specification
salesforce/utam-java
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
UTAM Java implementation
Contributions:177 reviews, 135 commits, 109 PRs in 1 year 11 months
javautam
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