Evan Friis
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolEvan Friis is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google with 18 years of experience building developer platforms, distributed systems, and consumer-facing infrastructure, currently leading Uber-level work for Google Home/Nest. He blends a strong academic foundation—a Ph.D. in Physics—with practical engineering, having applied machine-learning techniques to particle physics during academic appointments and a visiting scholarship in Europe. At Google he focuses on making LLM-driven tooling productive while owning APIs and platform reliability for large-scale services. An active open-source contributor, he implemented a Go code completer for the popular ycmd project, improving code-completion plumbing and test coverage. Colocated in Los Angeles, he brings a rare mix of deep research instincts, production-grade systems design, and hands-on backend craftsmanship. Colleagues know him for turning complex data and distributed challenges into pragmatic developer-facing solutions.
19 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Physics, Ph.D., Physics at University of California, DavisUniversity of California, San Diego
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Github Skills (8)
go10
code-completion10
testing10
json9
subprocess8
editor7
editors7
code-analysis7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ycm-core/ycmd
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
A code-completion & code-comprehension server
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 3 PRs, 14 comments in 18 days
Contributions summary:Evan primarily contributed to the implementation of a Go code completion server. They developed a Go code completer, including the core logic for handling code completion requests. The user also integrated the `gocode` tool for autocompletion and added tests to validate the functionality. Furthermore, they refactored the code to use pipes for communication with `gocode` and added functionality for auto-installing `gocode`.
code-completionsemantic-enginecode-analysiseditor
ekfriis/dotfiles
Sep 2009 - Mar 2015
Contributions:66 commits, 1 push in 5 years 7 months
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