Matt Evans
Arizona, United States
Summary
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RockstarMatthew Evans is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience building products from scratch and driving teams toward production-ready systems. Based in Gilbert, Arizona, he has progressed from senior engineer roles to engineering manager and now staff-level individual contributor at Torch, demonstrating both technical depth and leadership. He has a strong background in backend development and a history of shipping robust features across long tenures at Aptech and Geopoint Data. An active open-source contributor, Matthew has contributed language support and test improvements to the widely used highlight.js project, showing attention to language tooling and quality. He holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Washington and is known for taking minimal direction and turning ambiguity into shipping software.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (3)
grammars10
syntax-highlighting10
javascript9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
highlightjs/highlight.js
Dec 2015 - Oct 2018
JavaScript syntax highlighter with language auto-detection and zero dependencies.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 1 comment in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the GAUSS language highlighting within the highlight.js repository. They implemented new language features and methods, as well as fixing code issues. Further commits reflect improvements to the highlighting rules and adding/updating tests.
javascriptsyntax-highlighterzero-dependenciessyntax-highlightinglanguage-grammars
matthewevans/vscode-textinfo
Nov 2021 - May 2025
Small text information utility as a VSCode Extension. Annotates source code comments with median score from various text readabillity calculations.
Contributions:2 PRs, 15 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 6 months
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