Ryan Evans
Software Engineer at Meta
Davis, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorRyan Evans is a seasoned software engineer with 15 years of experience, currently building augmented and virtual reality systems at Meta from his base in Davis, California. He brings deep backend expertise—demonstrated by contributions to the well-regarded Clojure Aleph project where he improved HTTP request parsing and Ring spec compliance—bridging low-level protocol handling with production-grade test coverage. Comfortable across distributed systems and streaming communication, he focuses on reliable, spec-driven implementations that scale. Ryan pairs product-minded engineering with a knack for tightening edge-case behavior in networking stacks, a detail that surfaces in both AR/VR work and open-source contributions.
15 years of coding experience
Github Skills (6)
clojure10
webserver10
http10
clojure-cli10
testing10
http-client9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
clj-commons/aleph
Jul 2010 - Jul 2010
Asynchronous streaming communication for Clojure - web server, web client, and raw TCP/UDP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 2 days
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the Aleph project, focusing on HTTP request parsing and Ring specification compliance. They implemented changes to extract request method, headers, URI, and query string from incoming HTTP requests, ensuring the values conformed to the Ring specification. Additionally, the user added tests to validate request parsing and created new tests to incorporate server name, server port, and downcased header keys.
non-blockingwebsocketsweb-serverasynchronoushttp-client
rje/gbjam4
Aug 2015 - Nov 2021
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 4 months
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