Evan Prodromou


Evan S. Prodromou is a software developer and open source advocate. His major contributions have been Wikitravel, Identi.ca and StatusNet. In 2015 he launched Fuzzy.ai, an artificial intelligence service for developers.

Biography

Prodromou was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, and grew up in Texas and California. He has lived in Amsterdam, San Francisco, and Lisbon, and currently lives in Montreal.
Prodromou graduated from University of California, Berkeley in 1990, and worked for Microsoft and various Web development companies in the late 1990s. In 2003 he started Wikitravel, and in 2007 founded Control Yourself, which developed the software for Identi.ca, a microblogging service. Control Yourself was renamed to Laconica, StatusNet in 2010, and finally to GNU social in 2012. In December 2012 Prodromou started a new company, E14N.com to develop a new social media platform, Pump.io.
Prodromou is an advocate of Free and Open Source Software and Open Culture. He has presented at software conferences, and is the chair of the World Wide Web consortium's Federated Social Web Community Group.
He also serves on the World Wide Web Consortium and he is a co-editor of ActivityPub, the W3C standard for decentralized social networking.
Evan is the son of Stav Prodromou, and is married to Michele Ann Jenkins. They have two children.

Projects

Evan Prodromou is working on or has worked on these projects: