Bob Evans
Chief Executive Officer at Google
Fort Worth, Texas, United States
Summary
👤
SeniorRobert Evans is a senior software engineer with 13+ years building developer tools and health-focused experimentation platforms, currently leading PACO at Google—an open-source, mobile-and-cloud experiential sampling system used by researchers and individuals to run behavioral studies. He brings deep R&D experience from startups to enterprise, inventing techniques like differential testing, co-developing the CRAP metric and open-source tools such as Crap4j, and shipping IDE and server-side innovations at Borland and Fujitsu. Based in Scotts Valley, CA, he mentors engineers, teaches developer classes, and advises academic centers on health tech and ML, blending practical product delivery with research-driven thinking. Uncommonly for an engineer, his academic background spans philosophy, classical guitar, Spanish and political science, reflecting a broad curiosity that informs his human-centered approach to technology.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (43)
visual-studio-code10
objective-c10
javascript10
ios10
health10
electron10
microsoft10
windows10
behavior10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
editor10
java10
desktop10
sdk10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
google/paco
Jul 2012 - Jun 2020
The Paco behavioral science mobile research platform
Contributions:1912 commits, 177 PRs, 1000 pushes in 8 years
objective-csciencehealthjavascriptbehavioral
BobEvans/argh
Mar 2021 - Apr 2021
Rust derive-based argument parsing optimized for code size
Contributions:5 pushes in 22 days
code-sizederiverustargument-parsingparsing
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.