Jon Evans
Electrical Engineering Manager at Formlabs
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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RockstarJon Evans is a hands-on electrical engineering manager with 14 years of experience leading hardware and embedded teams, currently managing EE at Formlabs and serving as a core developer and lead for the widely used KiCad EDA project. He blends practical product-focused leadership for SLA and additive manufacturing electronics with deep open-source engineering—his KiCad contributions include UI and core feature work like new dimension objects, improved component dragging, and layer systems. Based in Somerville, MA, he has a track record of taking prototype designs into production at companies such as Olympus IMS and mentoring teams through complex hardware-software integration. Notably, he maintains active commitments to both commercial product delivery and the open-source tools that underpin PCB design workflows.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (8)
c-language10
front-end-development10
cprogramming-language10
computer-engineering10
eda10
3d-rendering8
build-system7
cmake7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
KiCad/kicad-source-mirror
Feb 2017 - Jan 2023
This is an active mirror of the KiCad development branch, which is hosted at GitLab (updated every time something is pushed). Pull requests on GitHub are not accepted or watched.
Role in this project:
Software Engineer
Software EngineerContributions:9 releases, 1711 commits in 6 years
Contributions summary:Jon's commits indicate a focus on developing and improving the KiCad software. They implemented new features, such as the addition of a new orthogonal dimension object, deselect net action, and enhancements to existing functionalities like component dragging and zone filling. Their work involved modifications to the user interface and core functionality, with contributions spanning across areas such as text properties, and the implementation of a system for a layer.
gitlabkicadwxwidgetscadengineering
Openlights/firesim
Jan 2013 - Nov 2021
Contributions:201 commits, 5 PRs, 74 pushes in 8 years 11 months
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