He was exposed to software development in his pre-teen years when his mother signed him up for a Lego robotics competition team. For his thirteenth birthday, Evan asked for a book on how to create websites, so that he could showcase his robots to the world. Not much later, he made a custom social network so that people all over the world could share their Lego robot projects. Although the site is no longer running, it was through this social network that Evan met another Beaker Studio team member, Travis Olbrich.