Eric Chaves
Founder COO at Terrament
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Chaves is an entrepreneur and technologist with 14 years of cross-disciplinary experience spanning full-stack software development, industrial design, and architecture, now leading Terrament as Founder COO to commercialize long-duration underground gravity energy storage. He combines hands-on engineering—specializing in JavaScript and front-end systems—with product and operational leadership, having built design-focused web and mobile applications and founded multiple startups. His background in CAD, product design, and built-environment thinking informs a systems-level approach to climate tech, blending mining and wind-generation expertise into low-cost storage solutions. A Newlab founder fellow and CEBIP accelerator member, he consults across the climate sector while continuing to run a software and design studio, demonstrating a rare fluency between code, physical systems, and commercialization.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BA Studio Arts with a focus in Architecture, BA Studio Arts with a focus in Architecture at Dartmouth College
Github Skills (110)
arcgis-js-api9
underground9
react9
firefox8
javascript8
frontend8
ethereum8
plug8
chrome8
chrome-extension8
android8
typescript8
isomorphic8
preact8
parallel7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
erchaves/syllable-website
Aug 2018 - Aug 2022
syllable website
Contributions:18 PRs, 62 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years
syllable-hq/uphs-feasibility-study
Aug 2019 - Jan 2020
Underground Pumped Hydroelectric Storage, A Feasibility Study
Contributions:33 commits, 7 PRs, 24 pushes in 5 months
undergroundstorage
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