Currently building AI agents at Trase

Evan Cohen

Director of Product, AI Platform at Trase

Product leader with 10+ years translating emerging AI research into transformative products. Proven track record launching 0-to-1 products with commercial success reaching 1M+ users.

Deep technical background with hands-on prototyping skills, open source contributions, and AI/automation patents.

Evan Cohen

Expertise

Specializing in AI products, developer platforms, and enterprise automation.

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AI & Machine Learning

Building intelligent products that leverage the latest in AI, from LLMs to computer vision and beyond.

Enterprise AI ML Products AI Agents
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Product Leadership

Taking products from zero to millions of users. Full lifecycle ownership from strategy to execution.

Strategy Roadmapping User Research
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Developer Experience

Creating tools and platforms that developers love to use. APIs, SDKs, and ecosystem integrations.

APIs SDKs DevTools
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Technical Background

Engineering foundation enables deep collaboration with teams and informed technical decisions.

JavaScript Python Node.js

Experience

A decade of building products at the cutting edge of technology.

2025 - Present

Trase

Current Role

Director of Product, AI Platform

Leading product for an AI agents company, building the next generation of intelligent automation.

April 2019 - 2025

UiPath

Director of Product

AI, Developer Tools, and Ecosystem Integrations

Principal Product Manager

UiPath Application Platform (March 2022 - March 2025)

  • Leading product for UiPath Apps, Data Service, Action Center, from zero to 1M+ enterprise Users.
  • Freeing people to do meaningful work, without the burden of Legacy UX.

Senior Product Manager

Customer Experience and Innovation (April 2019 - March 2022)

  • UiPath Apps from inception to launch
  • Robot.js SDK

October 2015 - May 2018

Microsoft

AI Product Manager II

AI & Research Group - Ambient Computing & Robotics, Business AI (November 2015 - May 2018)

  • Worked with scientists, engineers, designers, and data scientists to create Microsoft Workplace Safety with Cognitive Services
  • Ran product development, UI/UX, user research, science experiments, and team sprints for Virtual AI Agent (Dynamics 365 AI for Customer Service)
  • Worked with designers to create a universal multi-modal conversational canvas for Microsoft (Cortana, Bot Framework, etc)
  • Worked across partner teams to ship speech and intent processing in GigJam
  • Managed external vendor team to create website and marketing material for GigJam

Program Manager

PowerApps (August 2014 - October 2015)

  • Worked with a cross discipline team of engineers and designers to ship PowerApps' mobile application.
  • Worked closely with Cloud & Enterprise Leadership and across teams to deliver a cross-client, cross-product, credential persistence hub.
  • Ran internal dogfooding/beta-testing across the organization and prioritized feedback and bugs.
  • Worked with a small virtual team of other program managers to conceive, plan, prototype, and conduct user research for what is now known as Microsoft Flow.

December 2011 - August 2014

The Daily

Senior Web Developer and Technical Support

  • Built newspaper website from scratch on LAMP stack with Drupal.
  • Provided Tech support for Editorial staff including new wireless network roll-out, multimedia storage upgrades, and workflow improvements.

March 2013 - March 2014

Trov

Intern, Software Engineer

  • Developed cross platform mobile application using Angular, PhoneGap, and other tools.
  • Implemented existing designs into application and created new designs where applicable.
  • Worked effectively both remotely and in office environment.

January 2013 - February 2014

nomON

Full Stack Software Engineer

  • Won First Place Startup Weekend (1/25/2013)
  • Developed both server and client side applications.
  • Created RESTful API in PHP for data management.
  • Worked with Google Venture Group Ordr.in API's to successfully deliver food.

November 2010 - June 2012

Tamber

Full Stack Software Engineer

  • Created server side application for music and concert suggestion.
  • Primarily focused on front end application.
  • Developed custom MVC for internal use.

January 2009 - July 2010

Berkeley High Jacket

Senior Web Developer

  • Designed and developed site from the ground up using Drupal.
  • Conducted multiple case studies to identify issues and make the site even more user friendly.
  • Received Golden Crown Award March 19th 2010 from The Columbia Scholastic Press Association.

Open Source & More

Things I've built in my spare time.

Smart Mirror

Open source voice-controlled mirror. Featured in Business Insider.

⭐ 2.8k Featured in Business Insider

Sonus

Open source speech recognition library with offline hotword detection.

⭐ 640 Node.js Library

GitHub Data Visualization

Interactive visualization of GitHub data. School project for Info 424.

D3.js

Background

University of Washington

BS Informatics, Information School (iSchool) - 2014