Jon Evans
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Breakwater Ltd.
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolJon Evans is a Senior Staff Software Engineer in Boulder with 14 years of experience building sustainable web applications and mentoring engineering teams. He specializes in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript, has a track record of evolving APIs and backend systems (including contributions to the hipchat-rb API wrapper to add pagination and user retrieval), and currently shapes platform work at Gusto. Jon blends hands-on implementation with architectural thinking from roles ranging from founder and contractor to principal engineer, making him comfortable across startups and larger product teams. He values shipping practical solutions that solve real-world problems while deliberately growing the people around him. An early web developer with a BS in Computer Science from The University of Tulsa, he pairs deep Ruby expertise with a long-standing interest in maintainable, test-driven code.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bartlesville High SchoolBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at The University of Tulsa
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Github Skills (18)
apidoc10
rspec10
ruby10
api10
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
rest-api9
pagination8
macos6
ruby-on-rails6
emberjs6
meteor6
activemodelserializers6
css6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
hipchat/hipchat-rb
Jun 2017 - Aug 2017
HipChat HTTP API Wrapper in Ruby with Capistrano hooks
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Jon primarily focused on enhancing the HipChat Ruby API wrapper by introducing features to retrieve members and participants within rooms. They implemented new API calls and incorporated pagination support for retrieving large datasets. The changes involved modifying core Ruby files, API configuration, and adding testing to ensure functionality. Furthermore, the commits included wrapping the fetched members/participants as User instances.
apihipchatapi-wrapperrubycapistrano
foraker/frosting
Feb 2014 - Mar 2016
Contributions:24 commits, 7 PRs, 12 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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