Simon Evans

Simon heads up Calient’s software development team. He is a graduate of Computer Engineering with Honors from Melbourne University, including one year at the University of California, Irvine studying opto-electronics, semiconductor physics, and research at the Beckman Laser Center under Brian Wong. He has worked in the computer industry for 20 years, with a focus on enterprise software and business process.

Following university, Simon worked for 8 years in California software startups, getting involved in coding, design, release process, dev ops, software development process, and sales engineering. He returned to Australia in 2006 as an Enterprise Software consultant for 8 years. Simon moved to San Francisco as VP of Software Engineering at Nexant Inc for 5 years, to help implement clean energy programs across North American Utilities.