Evonote is the creation of a single person. For now.
My name is George Laza, and I’m the founder, architect, and lead developer behind the Evonote platform. It started as a personal mission to create a distraction-free, paper-like writing experience for students, combining technical skill with a deep understanding of education.
I was born in 1976. I’m 49 years old.
In middle and high school, I was a math olympiad contestant at national level, earning several important awards — including a Second Prize, an Honorable Mention, and a Special Prize from the Romanian Mathematical Sciences Society.
I studied Sociology at the University of Bucharest and graduated in 1998.
After a short stint in politics and market research, I returned to my first love: programming.
Since 2001, I’ve been working as a developer — first in web design & dev, later as a full-fledged software architect. I’ve built complex platforms, some of which are still in use more than 15 years later.
Among the most interesting / relevant projects:
Funding application & evaluation systems for FDSC (including form builders, evaluation pipelines, reviewer management, etc.);
A custom ecommerce infrastructure for Dacris, fully integrated with their ERP, supporting dynamic pricing, approval workflows, and per-client logic;
Scrapers and processors for Romania’s Parliament websites, extracting data they didn’t want to give — like MP loyalty and voting statistics — for IPP.
Some of my systems built in 2007 are still live and profitable — kaki.ro, for example, still runs on that codebase.
The idea for Evonote came to me around 2020.
In 2022, I decided to solidify the project with academic backing: I enrolled in the Computer Science faculty at the University of Bucharest. I graduated in 2025 with a perfect score (10/10) for my thesis — which describes the Evonote system in detail.
I’m now a Master’s student in Security and Advanced Logic (still at UB), and I continue to develop Evonote while working as a freelancer.
Gabriela, my wife, is part of the team and handles communication in her own unmistakable way.
What she brings is something rare: raw honesty and disarming directness. She’ll tell you the truth without sugar-coating it — and somehow, you won’t take it personally. On the contrary, it often feels like a breath of fresh air.
In a world filled with marketing fluff and scripted messaging, Gabriela’s way is simple: say what needs to be said, and mean it. That’s exactly the kind of voice I want associated with Evonote.
We’re just getting started, but we know where we’re going.
And if this works, we won’t be alone for long.
EVONOTE