Jon Evans Email & Phone Number

California, United States

San Francisco, Ca, Us

AI analysis of software projects for managers and execs

I make up stories about faraway places, and am occasionally also paid to tell tales of events that actually happened. My novels have won several awards; my journalism has appeared in Wired, The Guardian, The Walrus, The Globe and Mail, The Times of India, TechCrunch, etc.. My next book is the epic speculative fiction novel EXADELIC, coming in 2023 from Tor Books, the world's pre-eminent SF publisher.

Santa Cruz, Ca, Us

Building out the platform for forecasting the future via the "wisdom of the crowd," superforecasters, and custom-trained AI forecasting models.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Founding director of the GitHub Archive Program. Strategy, partnerships, publicity, internal team building, what to archive, how to archive it, where to store it for 1,000 years, Wrote both the guide for the archive's inheritors and shell / Ruby code to help assemble its contents.

Brooklyn, New York, Us

Web and native app development for hundreds of client projects. Initial technical architect of projects such as bookshop.org, Restoration Hardware's mobile web, Disney's Movies Anywhere, etc. Also: strategy, sales, security, engineering standards, coding tests, interviewing and allocating engineers, writing white papers, technology evaluation, rapid research and prototyping, technical oversight / big-picture thinking / gravitas. Principal / lead engineer for many projects in the early years.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Wrote ~500 weekly columns, many widely promulgated on Techmeme, Hacker News, Reddit, et al. Never missed a deadline. Included reportage from Armenia, Cambodia, Kenya, Senegal, Shenzhen, etc.; the only article by any major publication about Ethereum's launch; and frequent infosec coverage.

Android, iPhone, and iPad app development.

London, Gb

Android, App Engine and iPhone development for the EpiCollect system (http://www.epicollect.net/)

London, Gb

Bioinformatics database design and development.

Gb

Senior developer and then project architect. Led the development of PoultryFirst.com, a business-to-business auction site, from scratch. Java, ATG Dynamo, Oracle. Managed a team of developers and graphic designers.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Helped develop an asset allocation system that the Royal Bank of Canada subsequently used to orchestrate the allocation of billions of dollars. Java, C++, DB2.

Built dozens of complex and custom web sites for various clients, with timelines usually measured in weeks. C++, ASP, VBScript.

Developed corporate business model and conference-planning software for Robertson Stephens, a major investment bank. Smalltalk, GemStone, Java, C++.