Founder Profile
Evan Cooke
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Evan Cooke?
Evan Cooke is a founder of Twilio Inc., which was founded in 2008 with Jeff Lawson and John Wolthuis.
- Company founded
- Twilio Inc.
- Founded
- 2008
- Co-founders
- Jeff Lawson and John Wolthuis
Background
Computer Science PhD from the University of Michigan and early researcher in cybersecurity.
Founding Story
Evan Cooke co-founded Twilio and served as its first CTO. He was instrumental in designing the company's highly reliable cloud architecture, ensuring the API could scale to handle massive, instantaneous spikes in SMS traffic (such as during Uber surges or Airbnb bookings). He left the company in 2012 to return to academia and public service. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).
Sources
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- Twilio FY2025 Form 10-K (Twilio Inc.)
- Twilio Q4 and full-year 2025 earnings release (Twilio Inc.)