Summary
Eric Vicenti is a seasoned software leader and entrepreneur with 13 years of experience building products from robot prototypes to production mobile and web systems in the San Francisco Bay Area. As CTO and Co-Founder of Seed Hypermedia and former Co-Founder/Senior Engineer at 8B Medical, he blends hands-on engineering with startup leadership to ship hardware-integrated software, kiosks, and automation systems. His background includes a four-year tenure at Facebook and notable contributions to the popular react-navigation project, where he improved stack navigation behavior and transitions for better performance. Eric has a track record of owning full stacks and DevOps—most visibly when he led the software for Ono Food Co’s automated smoothie truck, encompassing iOS kiosks, backend servers, and industrial control. Comfortable moving between embedded robotics, front-end UI, and cloud infrastructure, he favors pragmatic solutions that bridge product, hardware, and user experience. He brings entrepreneurial grit, a maker’s curiosity from competitive robotics, and a history of improving core open-source navigation components.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Davis