"Thought-provoking ... Mr Evans shows great potential." — The Economist

"Un gourou de la Silicon Valley" — Le Monde

Jon Evans is an author, journalist, travel writer, and software engineer.

He writes a weekly column for TechCrunch, and his journalism has appeared in The Guardian, Wired, Quartz, The Globe & Mail, The Walrus, and The Times of India, among others.

His novels have won Arthur Ellis and ForeWord Book Of The Year awards. Almost all of them are freely available online. His work has been translated into ten languages.

"Jon Evans seems to spend most of his time backpacking in places (Zimbabwe, the Balkans, Iraq) that even the most intrepid of us tend to avoid. Evans also finds time to write strong, politically motivated thrillers." — Chicago Tribune

"Evans can write, too, when he isn't trying to be Bruce Willis." — The Washington Post

Jon is also the Chief Technology Officer of HappyFunCorp and the founding director of the GitHub Archive Program. You can find him on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr, and Amazon.