Drake Evans
CTO, Co-Founder at Agora
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDrake Evans is a pragmatic technology leader and co-founder currently serving as CTO of Agora with eight years of experience building and scaling data-intensive systems in high-security and blockchain environments. He blends hands-on engineering—having driven major performance improvements at Lifion and launched no-code blockchain tooling at Dapphero—with financial rigor from prior roles in private equity and as Head of Lending at Frax Finance, where he managed $FRAX-denominated debt instruments and open market operations. Drake repeatedly bridges product, protocol, and operations, guiding engineering strategy while executing complex, auditable financial systems that maintain currency pegs. Based in the New York metro area, he is known for reducing critical processing times from hours to under two minutes and for hiring and mentoring early engineering teams.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Engineering; Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Economics Minor in Financial Economics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Engineering; Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Economics Minor in Financial Economics at Vanderbilt University
Github Skills (46)
foundry10
portable10
tooling10
solidity10
testing10
solc10
alloy10
mdbook10
ethereum10
blockchain10
depth10
documentation10
pgp9
modular9
checkout9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
DrakeEvans/foundry
Jan 2022 - Feb 2025
Foundry is a blazing fast, portable and modular toolkit for Ethereum application development written in Rust.
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 1 month
foundryblazingethereumrustblockchain
DrakeEvans/atrium-landing
Nov 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:7 PRs, 109 pushes, 12 branches in 15 days
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