Evan Caville
Research Assistant at The University of Queensland
Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolEvan Caville is a software engineer and research assistant with 10 years’ experience building secure, production-grade systems and contributing to open-source tooling. His background spans security engineering at Canonical—where he improved LXD container management and CLI error handling for the widely used snapcraft project—to network software work at Telstra and tutoring core software engineering courses at The University of Queensland. Now based in Australia and returning to UQ as a research assistant, he blends hands-on backend and DevOps expertise with an academic perspective on software design and teaching. Notably, his open-source contributions include making containers ephemeral and hardening plugin behaviors in snapcraft, reflecting a focus on robustness and reproducibility in Linux and IoT packaging.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology (Honours), Bachelor of Information Technology (Honours) at The University of Queensland
Github Skills (8)
lxd10
snapcraft10
python10
ant9
cicd8
autotools8
dockers7
docker7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
canonical/snapcraft
Jun 2016 - Nov 2018
Package, distribute, and update any app for Linux and IoT.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:10 commits, 12 PRs, 49 comments in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Evan contributed to the `snapcraft` project by implementing features related to LXD container management, including making containers ephemeral. They also added features to the ant plugin, specifically focusing on properties and build target options, and addressed a bug in the autotools plugin related to script execution. Furthermore, they made improvements to error handling and messaging within the CLI and updated the project to use a more current store URL.
linuxsnaps
evandandrea/snapcraft
Jun 2016 - Nov 2018
Snapcraft is a delightful packaging tool
Contributions:2 PRs, 32 pushes, 12 branches in 2 years 5 months
packagingpackaging-toolsnapcraft
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