Krishna Ersson
VP Of Software at Fortell
Guilford, Connecticut, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKrishna Ersson is a seasoned software leader with 15+ years of experience delivering scalable, product-focused systems across embedded, mobile, and cloud-native domains. As VP of Software at Chromatic since 2022, he shapes architecture and delivery while collaborating closely with product, engineering, and leadership to scale platforms and processes. At Butterfly Network, he led a cross-functional team, built the core tech stack powering two products, and established a CI pipeline with elastic AWS agents and on-prem Mac minis for hardware-in-the-loop testing. He also cross-compiled and embedded multiple versions of the Python interpreter for Android and iOS, enabling seamless use of scientific Python code in mobile apps, and built firmware-update tooling that eliminated firmware-related customer complaints. Based in Guilford, Connecticut, his career spans MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Rose-Hulman Ventures, where he worked on UAV control, real-time data visualization, and embedded systems, supported by a BS in Computer Engineering/CS from Rose-Hulman and an MSIT in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MSIT, Software Engineering, 4.04/4.33, MSIT, Software Engineering, 4.04/4.33 at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBS, Computer Engineering, double major Computer Science, minor Mathematics, 4.0/4.0, BS, Computer Engineering, double major Computer Science, minor Mathematics, 4.0/4.0 at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Github Skills (169)
realtime10
websockets10
extensible10
firebase10
auth10
picture-in-picture10
vs-code10
scalable10
database10
oauth210
build-system10
bazel-rules10
bazel10
firestore10
modification10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ButterflyNetwork/libusb
Nov 2015 - Jan 2019
A cross-platform library to access USB devices
Contributions:8 PRs, 13 pushes, 9 branches in 3 years 1 month
windowsdfuusblinuxusb-devices
ButterflyNetwork/kivy-ios
Mar 2021 - Apr 2022
Toolchain for compiling Python / Kivy / other libraries for iOS
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
pythonkivytoolchainioscompiling
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