Peter Mcevoy
Cofounder at Potluck
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Mcevoy is a software engineer and founder with seven years of hands-on experience spanning firmware, language runtimes, and full-stack mobile and web applications. Currently a cofounder in New York, he has shipped low-level system drivers at Apple and advanced core infrastructure for Urbit, contributing to allocation and memory management that improved stability and scalability. He led an independent hardware-software exploration into ground-based livestock tracking—talking directly to ranchers and filing a provisional patent—demonstrating his ability to blend domain research with pragmatic engineering. At Tlon and in open source he redesigned networking and database layers to support resource sharing across millions of nodes, showing a focus on high-scale, maintainable systems. A former Stanford CS instructor and athlete, he pairs rigorous systems knowledge with a collaborative, product-minded approach. He’s drawn to complex systems and prefers solving hard infrastructural problems that unlock simpler experiences for end users.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Pine Creek High SchoolAssociate of Science - AS, Math and science, Associate of Science - AS, Math and science at Riverside City CollegeMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (7)
c1710
urbit10
memory-management10
c1110
low-level-programming9
nock8
hashtable8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
urbit/urbit
Dec 2021 - Aug 2022
An operating function
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:133 reviews, 199 commits, 45 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Peter contributed significantly to the Urbit project, focusing on core system functionality, particularly within the allocation and memory management aspects of the system. They addressed issues like re-adding essential header files and commenting on allocation macros, which suggests a deep understanding of the system's internal workings. Further contributions involved adding header guards, modifying database size parameters, and refactoring page tracking, indicating an effort to improve the system's stability and maintainability.
nockrustoperating-systemp2phoon
mcevoypeter/2020-spr-cs240lx
Apr 2020 - Aug 2020
course materials for cs240lx @ stanford
Contributions:106 pushes in 3 months
stanford
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