Joshua Evenson is a founder and AI engineer with 14 years of experience building large-scale messaging and real-time infrastructure, now leading a stealth AI startup in Palo Alto. He spent over a decade at Meta driving Messenger performance, cross-platform C/C++ mobile systems, end-to-end encrypted messaging, and most recently led engineering for Generative AI agents. Comfortable across full-stack, distributed databases, and low-level native development, he combines product-minded engineering with hands-on systems design. His background includes scaling messaging to billions of users and shipping Messenger Lite and the LightSpeed rewrite, showing a track record of pragmatic, high-impact delivery. Based on a UC Berkeley CS degree, he blends deep systems expertise with entrepreneurial ambition and an appetite for secretive, cutting-edge AI work.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
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