Brent Erickson
Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Bellingham, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrent Erickson is a Principal Engineering Manager with 12 years of experience leading cross-functional teams and shipping dependable software across Microsoft and SaaS startups. He blends hands-on engineering—contributing to notable open-source work on microsoft/reactxp for cross-platform app quality and accessibility—with people-first leadership developed at Toyota and Outreach. A founder of NW Peak Solutions, he pairs entrepreneurial urgency with enterprise-grade delivery, driving improvements from build stability to linting and accessibility. Based in Bellingham, WA, Brent champions mentorship, community service, and practical problem solving, and outside work he balances a busy family life with surfing, kayaking, and youth sports volunteering.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc. Computer Engineering - Nanoscale System Design Option, BSc. Computer Engineering - Nanoscale System Design Option at University of Alberta
Github Skills (10)
typescript10
typescripts10
cross-platform10
multiplatform10
react10
typescript-types10
accessibility9
web-development8
javascript8
react-native7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/reactxp
Apr 2017 - Feb 2020
Library for cross-platform app development.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 2 reviews, 98 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Brent primarily focused on improving the ReactXP library, which is for cross-platform app development. Their contributions included enabling TSLint for code quality, fixing build breaks, and auto-fixing linting issues. They also addressed several bugs across multiple platforms, and improved the codebase with accessibility features, and refactoring.
app-platformwindowsandroidioscross-platform
microsoft/NoSQLProvider
Jan 2016 - May 2019
A cross-browser/platform indexeddb-like client library
Contributions:8 releases, 3 reviews, 39 commits in 3 years 4 months
cross-browserbrowserindexeddbclient-libraryjavascript
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