Evan Rosenfeld is a founder and engineer with 15 years of experience building mobile apps, machine learning products, and real-estate ventures from Palo Alto. He runs Longhorn Tax and Rosenfeld Properties while operating Avocado Hills, an indie app studio whose iOS/OSX titles have been featured by Apple and reached #1. Technically versatile, Evan has shipped React Native iOS integrations (including OpenALPR plate recognition enhancements) and led engineering through a $6M fundraise at CarDash. Trained at Stanford (MS EE) and UIUC (BS Computer Engineering), he blends rigorous systems and optimization thinking with hands-on product design and economics expertise. He has a track record of turning consumer-facing interaction work into commercial products and spotting value in adjacent markets like property tax savings.
15 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Y Combinator
BS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
MS Electrical Engineering, MS Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
An open-source React Native automatic license plate recognition package for OpenALPR
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Contributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 12 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Evan primarily focused on developing features for an iOS mobile application using React Native. Their contributions included renaming classes to avoid collisions, supporting all camera orientations, adding a missing property for touch-to-focus, fixing headers, implementing a visual outline for recognized plates, and adding the ability to configure the OpenALPR country code and plate outline color. The user also made changes to the UI, adding recognized plate outlines to be displayed.
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