Summary
Erica K is a founder and seasoned software leader with 17 years of experience building reliable data and infrastructure systems from startup greenfields to production at scale. Based in San Francisco, she led engineering and ultimately served as CTO at Tall Poppy, driving product and team growth, and now runs a stealth startup focused on funeral service-related innovation. Her background spans payments and backend systems at Square, health data validation and federal projects at Nuna, and infrastructure-heavy roles at brightwheel, giving her deep expertise in data ingestion, validation, and robust server-side architectures. Erica blends hands-on engineering with product instincts—she’s comfortable shipping code, mentoring teams, and translating complex regulatory requirements into practical systems. Outside work she knits sweaters and drinks a lot of tea, a small clue to her patient, detail-oriented approach to technical leadership.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at University of Victoria