Eric Kerr is a founder-turned-product leader with 12 years of engineering and startup experience, best known for building TruckMap (a "Waze for Trucks") and exiting to Tenstreet/Providence Equity in 2023. Based in Chicago, he blends hands-on iOS and front-end engineering with product leadership—continuing at Tenstreet as Director of Navigation Product while advising RevenueCat. Eric’s early career includes co-founding mobile ventures and shipping front-end systems for Cloudera, and his open-source contributions to React Native Mapbox modules show deep expertise in map SDK internals and user interaction refinements. He pairs entrepreneurial grit with practical technical depth, often tackling platform-level problems like camera control, localization, and animated geometry in mapping stacks.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science and Engineering, BS Computer Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University
A Mapbox react native module for creating custom maps
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Contributions:3 PRs, 15 comments, 3 issues in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on modifying the iOS implementation of the `rnmapbox/maps` repository. Their contributions include fixing issues related to user interaction and camera change reasons. Significant work involves updating the `RCTMGLMapViewManager.m` file, modifying the delegate methods for map changes and user location updates, and refactoring animated point and line string classes. Additional methods for fetching information like map bounds, zoom, and center were implemented.
A Mapbox GL react native module for creating custom maps
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 27 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on modifying the iOS implementation of the react-native-mapbox-gl module. Their work involved fixing user interaction issues, specifically addressing camera change reasons. Additionally, they updated the iOS code to include new features like label localization and made several changes to the delegate methods for improved functionality. These changes suggest a focus on refining the map's behavior and user experience.
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