Erica Du
Co-Founder & CTO at Toko
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolErica Du is a seasoned software leader and Co-Founder & CTO based in New York with 11 years of experience building AI-driven products and mission-driven tech. She leads Toko (YC W22), an AI-powered conversational English tutor designed to help learners gain fluency and confidence, blending product vision with hands-on engineering. Her background spans research at Cornell Tech on algorithmic accountability, applied deployments at Palantir, and early product engineering at Codecademy and Google/YouTube, giving her a rare mix of research, startup, and enterprise experience. Trained at MIT (BS, MEng in Computer Science with AI), she combines rigorous technical foundations with practical product delivery. Erica’s work reflects a consistent focus on human-centered AI—bringing values-driven research into consumer-facing language learning products.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyW22, W22 at Y Combinator
Spanish, Chinese
Github Skills (29)
ios10
mobile-development10
windows10
app-framework10
skiasharp10
mobile-game10
cross-platform10
desktop10
material-design10
android10
skia10
mobile10
web-framework10
macos10
fuchsia10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ericadu/LekkerPlekke
May 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:6 PRs, 9 pushes, 4 branches in 8 months
ericadu/ericadu.github.io
Feb 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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