Matthew Evans
Staff Software Engineer at Torch
Gilbert, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Evans is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience building products from scratch and driving teams toward production-ready systems. Based in Gilbert, Arizona, he has progressed from senior engineer roles to engineering manager and now staff-level individual contributor at Torch, demonstrating both technical depth and leadership. He has a strong background in backend development and a history of shipping robust features across long tenures at Aptech and Geopoint Data. An active open-source contributor, Matthew has contributed language support and test improvements to the widely used highlight.js project, showing attention to language tooling and quality. He holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Washington and is known for taking minimal direction and turning ambiguity into shipping software.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Washington
Github Skills (3)
grammars10
syntax-highlighting10
javascript9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
highlightjs/highlight.js
Dec 2015 - Oct 2018
JavaScript syntax highlighter with language auto-detection and zero dependencies.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 1 comment in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the GAUSS language highlighting within the highlight.js repository. They implemented new language features and methods, as well as fixing code issues. Further commits reflect improvements to the highlighting rules and adding/updating tests.
dependencieshighlightzerosyntax-highlighterjavascript-syntax
aptech/docs
Jan 2019 - Dec 2024
Contributions:426 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 11 months
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