Matty Evans
DevOps Engineer at Ethereum Foundation
Queensland, Australia
Summary
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SeniorMatty Evans is a seasoned DevOps engineer based in Queensland, Australia with 11 years of experience building reliable, high-performance systems across startups and large organisations. He’s moved between hands-on engineering and leadership roles—most recently joining the Ethereum Foundation after directing engineering at Tractor Ventures and leading performance and reliability teams at Entain. Matty combines deep operational expertise with backend development chops, evidenced by his open-source contribution adding a Shopify OAuth2 provider to the popular Go authentication library goth. He’s comfortable shipping end-to-end solutions, from authentication integration and backend services to platform reliability at scale, and brings a pragmatic mindset honed across product, agency, and betting-tech environments. Something less obvious: his career blends creative agency beginnings with rigorous platform engineering, giving him a rare perspective on user-facing features that must also meet strict operational SLAs.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (12)
user-authentication10
authentication10
go10
api10
apidoc10
oauth10
shopify10
testing8
objective-c6
cocoa-touch6
uikit6
ipad6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
markbates/goth
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
Package goth provides a simple, clean, and idiomatic way to write authentication packages for Go web applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Matty implemented a new Shopify provider for the `goth` authentication package, adding core functionality for Shopify OAuth2 authentication. The commits focused on creating the necessary structs, functions, and endpoints to handle the authentication flow, including fetching user information. Further contributions involved updating comments and adding the ability to switch out the shop name and corresponding tests. These changes enabled integration with the Shopify platform and improved the versatility of the `goth` package.
golangidiomaticweb-applicationsauthenticationclean
snikch/aggro
Dec 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:30 commits, 12 PRs, 18 pushes in 10 months
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