Bjarki Holm
Founder at Typeset
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBjarki Holm is a product-focused engineering leader and serial founder with 13 years of experience building developer-facing and design-automation products from research prototypes to acquisitions. He founded Twigkit (acquired by Lucidworks) and Typeset (acquired by SamCart) and served as VP of Engineering at Lucidworks, where he led a 20-person innovation team launching new products. Trained as a CS/Math PhD at Cambridge, his research on formal logic and computational complexity informs a rigorous, model-driven approach to architecture and algorithms. He balances deep technical chops in search, enterprise systems and UI-driven tooling with practical product instincts that prioritize usability and go-to-market outcomes. Based in Cambridge, UK, he combines academic credibility—having lectured graduate logic courses—with hands-on startup execution across both UK and Silicon Valley markets. A less obvious strength is his ability to translate abstract theoretical results into concrete product features that scale in production.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Mathematics and Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Mathematics and Computer Science at University of CambridgeBachelor of Science (BSc) Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Electrical Engineering at Háskóli Íslands
Github Skills (48)
mermaid10
sequence10
mindmap10
rich-text9
javascript9
editors9
typescript9
flowchart9
wysiwyg9
documentation8
rich-text-editor8
react8
simple-api8
slate8
browser8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bjarkih/bjarkih.github.io
May 2017 - Feb 2025
Contributions:47 pushes in 7 years 10 months
twigkit/fig
Mar 2013 - Sep 2017
Contributions:3 releases, 15 commits, 7 PRs in 4 years 7 months
configurationsimple-frameworkhierarchicalconfigconfigurations
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