Michael Evans
Staff Software Engineer at WillowTree
Miami, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Evans is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and maintaining Android and cross-platform mobile applications, currently driving engineering work at WillowTree from Miami. He has deep hands-on expertise in Kotlin, Xamarin (iOS and Android), Android TV and Fire TV, and has supported major consumer and enterprise clients including Pepsi, Regal Cinemas, Johnson & Johnson BabyCenter, Wyndham Rewards, and Synchrony Bank. Known for evolving long-running support contracts into stable, production-grade releases, he blends feature delivery with ongoing maintenance and platform modernization. His work on Arborvi leveraged the Firebase suite, highlighting a practical grasp of cloud-backed mobile architectures and realtime services. At WillowTree he has progressed from senior to staff engineer, signaling both technical depth and leadership in mobile engineering. Outside of work he keeps an active GitHub presence, reflecting a continuous focus on craft and community.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Herndon High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at James Madison University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (65)
lightning-network10
cryptocurrency10
p2p10
falcon10
lightning10
bitcoin10
mesh-network10
cryptography10
swift9
messaging9
bitcoin-core9
bluetooth9
inspect9
kotlin9
bluetooth-mesh9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
evansmj/cln-application
Nov 2023 - May 2025
Core lightning application on Umbrel
Contributions:7 PRs, 133 pushes, 23 branches in 1 year 6 months
evansmj/BMS-Kneeboard-and-Planner
Feb 2015 - Mar 2020
Kneeboard Tools for Falcon 4.33.3
Contributions:5 releases, 537 commits, 46 PRs in 5 years 1 month
falconkneeboard
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