About

Evan Hildreth is a skilled Backend Engineer with over 14 years of relevant experience in software engineering. He is currently working with webdevstudios where he focuses on adding and changing functionality in WordPress, supporting project management with estimations, and developing custom blocks in React to customize the editor for client needs. Evan is also involved in open source and community work, participating in Five for the Future, a monthly day dedicated to such work. Evan has previously worked with Furman University as a Programmer Analyst, where he was responsible for the full software lifecycle, maintained university WordPress deployments, and developed custom applications in Ruby on Rails. He also worked on the Workday implementation team developing reports and integrations. At Blackbaud, Evan was a Software Engineer II and worked on the initial development of Altru, where he was responsible for developing features and maintaining code quality. Evan's education background includes a degree in Mathematics-Computer Science from Furman University. He has a strong tech stack that includes Backend, Frontend, Ruby, Javascript, and Software Engineering. Evan is passionate about building digital things and believes that well-built software is like a well-built structure, where it's in the broad strokes and the details. He is a problem solver who enjoys connecting service A to app Q, getting content from system W through middleware C into frontend N. In summary, Evan is a skilled engineer who gets stuff done with bits and bytes instead of nuts and bolts.