Principal Product Architect | Senior UI Engineer | Educational Technologist
What's Evan Marie's Story?
Evan builds systems that help people understand, create, learn, and grow.
Evan's work moves between design, frontend engineering, AI, curriculum architecture, and human-centered product strategy, with a steady focus on making complex ideas clearer, more beautiful, and more useful.
Evan's work moves between design, frontend engineering, AI, curriculum architecture, and human-centered product strategy, with a steady focus on making complex ideas clearer, more beautiful, and more useful.
From opera stages to AI algorithms, Evan Marie has never met a box she was willing to stay in. A classically trained vocalist turned tech founder, she is the female co-founder and majority shareholder of DarkViolet.ai and the co-creator of Lumi Forge, platforms built on the radical idea that technology should elevate human potential instead of replacing it.
With over two decades of industry experience, Evan leads the design and development of groundbreaking platforms that challenge conventional content consumption. Her expertise spans UI/UX design, graphic design, and sophisticated machine learning models, making her a true innovator in AI-powered interactive experiences.
Lumi Forge represents her boldest vision: transforming content into immersive, interactive learning experiences that move audiences beyond passive consumption toward active learning and meaningful growth. The platform empowers authors, educators, creators, and thought leaders to transform their work into interactive journeys, reclaiming media from passive scrolling and restoring depth and transformation to learning.
Her vast experiences give her a distinctive vantage point. The same brain that builds machine learning models also asks the big questions: What does it mean to be human in an AI world? How do spirituality, technology, and consciousness actually intersect? She brings pattern recognition from operating at the intersection of art, technology, education, and human development, along with the unflinching willingness to examine what we're told versus what's actually true.
Evan approaches projects holistically with passionate commitment to making transformative learning accessible to diverse audiences. As a pioneering figure in AI innovation deeply invested in humanity waking up to its own potential, she remains eager to push the boundaries of what's possible in reshaping how people learn, grow, and connect.
Evan turns ambitious ideas into structured product systems: user journeys, content models, authoring workflows, interaction patterns, and the architecture needed to make a concept usable at scale.
She builds polished React, Remix, TypeScript, Tailwind, and Framer Motion interfaces with strong component systems, responsive layouts, accessible flows, and the visual precision that makes software feel intentional.
She designs AI workflows that support creativity, agency, reflection, feedback, and active learning instead of replacing the human part of the experience.
Her background in teaching, curriculum architecture, and neurodiverse learning design helps her build tools that adapt to the person instead of forcing people through one rigid path.
An AI-powered interactive content platform that transforms books, courses, articles, and long-form materials into dynamic exploration experiences with Creator Studio, structured content modeling, real-time generation, gamified explorations, and publishing workflows.
A full-stack AI-integrated educational platform with adaptive curricula, automated grading, personalized learning pathways, interactive lessons, ACT/SAT preparation, and accessibility-forward support for neurodiverse learners.
A human-centered AI product studio focused on interactive experiences, brand systems, educational technology, creative tools, AI workflows, and full-stack product development.
A cross-platform mobile app built with React Native and Expo, integrating AI-powered interpretive experiences for reflection, exploration, and personal meaning-making.
A solar data application with real-time visualization and interactive dashboard patterns that make complex space-weather information easier to read and act on.
Career Thread
From opera stages to AI systems
Classical Music, Performance, and Teaching
Evan began in music: classical voice, opera, piano, guitar, music theory, music history, individualized instruction, and performance coaching. That work trained her ear for pattern, pacing, emotional truth, and how people actually learn.
Publishing, Arts Leadership, and Studio Ownership
She edited instructional books for Mel Bay Publications, led web development and marketing for The New Opera of Atlanta, and founded Evan Marie Studio as a home for teaching, UI/UX, web design, branding, and technology services.
Frontend, Data, and Product Consulting
She built responsive applications, interactive dashboards, data pipelines, and custom frontend solutions for clients across modern web frameworks, bringing design precision and technical problem-solving into the same room.
DarkViolet.ai and Lumi Forge
Today she co-leads product architecture, frontend engineering, content structure, AI generation workflows, visual systems, and learning experience design for platforms built around agency, creativity, and human potential.
Math Unlocked: an interactive mathematics resource spanning algebra, geometry, trigonometry, vectors, matrices, logarithms, conic sections, statistics, and probability.
Know Your Rights: a U.S. Constitution deep dive focused on original text, government powers, checks and balances, and the Bill of Rights.
Radical Clarity: a critical thinking curriculum exploring cognitive bias, manipulation, emotional data, intellectual humility, and resilient reasoning.
How Business Actually Works: a business foundations course covering economics, ownership structures, entrepreneurship, operations, management, marketing, finance, accounting, and organizational decision-making.
The Mechanics of Advantage: a strategic thinking curriculum translating principles from Sun Tzu into modern frameworks for business, relationships, perception, and decision-making.
The Mechanics of the Cosmos: an advanced astronomy and physics learning experience connecting light, radiation, gravity, stellar mechanics, quantum behavior, relativity, galaxies, black holes, and cosmology.
Education
Formal study, languages, and lifelong learning
Education
Master of Music, Georgia State University
Bachelor of Music, Vanderbilt University
Post-graduate study, Universität Mozarteum Sommerakademie, three certificates
Languages
Intermediate/basic German
Basic French and Italian
Beginner Russian and Mandarin
Evan is at her best where complexity needs a translator, where tools need a soul, and where ambitious ideas need someone who can move from concept to architecture to working product.