"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.

His journalism has appeared in The Guardian, Wired, Quartz, The Globe & Mail and The Walrus, and he was TechCrunch's weekly opinion columnist for most of a decade. He has traveled to more than 100 countries and reported from Iraq, Haiti, Colombia, and the Congo.

His novels have won Arthur Ellis and ForeWord Book Of The Year awards. Originally published by HarperCollins and Hodder & Stoughton, almost all of them are now 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.