Oli Evans
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolOli Evans is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years crafting resilient, user-focused web and infrastructure systems from London. He has led teams and rebuilt critical IPFS infrastructure—transforming fragile gateway and bootstrap fleets into repeatable, canaried deployments—and shipped the unified IPFS Web UI, Desktop app and Companion extension. Comfortable across the full stack, Oli has contributed to high-profile open source projects (IPFS, Filecoin, nft.storage) adding everything from polished front-end UX to CAR-file API support, storage integrations and CI/CD automation. He combines hands-on engineering with pragmatic ops: Prometheus metrics, Ansible-driven infrastructure-as-code and deployment dry-runs that reduce production risk. Currently building the Digital Public Infrastructure map (dpimap.org), he pairs a public-interest lens with the philosophy “leave it better than you found it,” evident in both civic projects and developer tooling.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Lancaster Royal Grammar SchoolBSc 1st Computer Science, BSc 1st Computer Science at Goldsmiths, University of LondonUniversity College London
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Github Skills (61)
hugo10
javascript10
docker10
electron10
apidoc10
back-end-development10
scripting10
peer-to-peer10
browser-extension10
testing10
css10
storage10
responsive-design10
bash10
ipfs10
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
web3-storage/web3.storage
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
DEPRECATED ⁂ The simple file storage service for IPFS & Filecoin
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 393 reviews, 142 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Oli primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the web3.storage project, implementing core client-side features, including the .store and .get methods for interacting with the storage service. Their work involved porting code from nft.storage, writing tests across different environments (browser, CJS, ESM), and creating API endpoints to support CAR file management. In addition, the user was responsible for setting up and maintaining the CI/CD pipeline for building, testing, and deploying the API and website.
ipfsfilestoragefilecoinp2pfile-storage
ipfs/ipfs-webui
May 2018 - Jul 2021
A frontend for an IPFS Kubo and IPFS Desktop
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 121 commits, 179 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Oli primarily worked on front-end development for the IPFS web UI. They implemented hash routing using redux-bundler, enabling navigation between different pages. The user added a live-update bundle and later replaced it with an app-idle bundle to improve responsiveness. They also designed and implemented navigation bar styles, new UI components such as an IPLD explore form and data display and the structure of the main application layout.
ipfsreactp2pjavascriptweb3
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