Summary
Evan Hammer is a founder-CEO and product-engineering leader with 13 years of experience building and scaling consumer and B2B products, currently leading Covoy, an AI planning startup that turns fragmented lives into actionable daily plans. He previously co-founded and exited Smart Host after Techstars Austin and has driven growth and product transformation at Focusmate, Vimeo, and Codecademy. Evan combines hands-on engineering chops with product strategy and OKR coaching, having sped up delivery and recruitment as a fractional product leader for multiple startups. As a mentor for Techstars and Plato he helps early-stage founders and engineering leaders prioritize user research and iterative releases. Based in New York, he pairs a technical CS education from Brown with an uncommon background in music theory, which informs his focus on structure, rhythm, and clarity in product design and team processes.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science & Music Theory, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science & Music Theory at Brown University
High School, High School at Syosset High School