Evan was the first hire and lead developer of Odeo.com through the pivot to Twitter. From there he was architect at Yahoo Brickhouse where they build the social location platform, Fire Eagle.

He's spoken extensively on startups, software development, media, social change. Past speaking engagements include: Web 2.0 Expo, OSCON, Rails Conf, XTech, Mobile Active, Emerging Telephony Conference, Emerging Communications Conference, etc...