After completing a PhD in Applied Physics at Caltech, Evan led research at Protocol Labs, creating their research grants program, and led the special projects team that created Hypercerts, Funding the Commons, gov4git, and key parts of Discourse Graphs and the initial Open Agency Architecture proposal.

Daniel previously co-led software development and usability of the STITCHES systems integration toolchain, one of the most successful DARPA programs of the past decade. Prior to this he worked on programming environments and HCI at Coda, Y Combinator Research, and MIT Media Lab.