About

Hi there! I'm Evan Wondrasek (my last name is pronounced wun - DRAH - seck).

I'm a Senior Director, Software Engineering at Zwift and am based out of Orange County, California where I live with my wife Sarah, our daughter, and our dog Toaster.

I previously worked as a software development manager at Amazon, a software development manager and software engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS), a software engineer at Emerson Automation Solutions, and I have a degree in Electrical Engineering with a focus in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of North Dakota.

I also created a few independent projects, including MarkdownPad, a full-featured Markdown word processor for Windows, which was downloaded over 2.1 million times and is available in 18 different languages, and I founded and served as editor-and-chief for the now-retired technology blog Techerator.

I love to read and I try to take pretty photos. You can connect with me on LinkedIn. I often post silly and irreverent things on Threads.

About This Site

The existence of this site is best explained by some combination of the following: I'm a huge nerd, I love to write, I'm incessantly curious, and I love sharing things that I find interesting. Oh, and sometimes I write things down for my own sake as well, like if I've figured something out that I might need to use again in the future.

My love of writing is complemented by my strong desire to practice writing, because I'm convinced that the best way to get better at most things is simply to spend time doing them.

As such, unless otherwise noted, I do not use generative AI or LLMs to create written content for this website. To be clear, I'm super bullish on AI and LLMs, and I use them more and more every day, but the ideas and words in this website all come from my own brain and fingertips.