Jon Evans
Solutions Architect at Meta
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJon Evans is a solutions architect and seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of experience building and guiding software teams across startups, consultancies, and research labs. Currently at Meta Superintelligence Labs, he previously served as CTO of HappyFunCorp, founding director of the GitHub Archive Program, and senior engineer at forecasting and AI-focused outfits like Metaculus and FutureSearch. He combines hands-on system architecture and rapid prototyping with product strategy—having shipped high-profile projects such as Bookshop.org and led decisions about what code humanity should preserve for a millennium. An award-winning novelist and longtime tech journalist who has reported from conflict zones and written ~500 weekly TechCrunch columns, he brings a rare mix of technical depth, narrative craft, and global perspective. He frequently bridges research and production AI, and has a practical knack for turning complex, long-horizon problems into deployable systems.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electrical Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (6)
github-archive10
arctic10
vault10
currency10
finance9
python8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rezendi/epubhub
Jul 2012 - Dec 2016
Contributions:79 commits, 1 push in 4 years 5 months
HappyFunCorp/Webthereum
Jan 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:7 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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