Evan Goldschmidt
Founder, CTO at Portola
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEvan Goldschmidt is a San Francisco–based technology founder and CTO with a decade of hands-on leadership delivering scalable software and product velocity. He is currently Founder and CTO at Portola, guiding product strategy and engineering as the company grows. Previously, he was the founding engineer and CTO at Even (2015–2022) and Product Lead at One (2022–2023), building cross-functional teams and early-stage products. At Google, he contributed as a software engineer and later as a senior software engineer, where he led the launch of the Google Glass App Store and the native Photos experience. He is motivated by solving meaningful problems and delivering impact over accolades, thriving on the startup rollercoaster. He earned a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityRiverdale Country School
Github Skills (142)
docker-container10
multimodal10
agents10
voice10
ai10
graph10
voice-assistant10
amazon-ec210
openai10
redis-client9
golang9
aes-gcm9
grpc9
high-performance9
nlp9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
portolans/livekit-agents
Aug 2024 - Mar 2025
Build real-time multimodal AI applications 🤖🎙️📹
Contributions:8 PRs, 67 pushes, 17 branches in 7 months
evenco/docker-fake-sqs
Mar 2017 - Dec 2018
Provides a fake SQS server that you can run locally to test against
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
golanglocallysqs
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