Erik Erikson
Farmer at Erikson Family Farm LLC
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolErik Erikson is a versatile software engineer and founder with 10 years of professional experience and an MSc in Neural Computation from the University of Edinburgh, now based in Seattle. He has built cloud-native, serverless, and distributed systems across startups and large enterprises, shipping products that span IoT control planes, streaming platforms, and customer-facing web apps. As founder of Psyome he architected a secure multi-account AWS environment with GitHub-driven CI/CD and unified TypeScript types with JSON Schemas and OpenAPI to enforce contract safety across services. His open-source contributions include improving Serverless Framework’s API Gateway handling and credentials loading, reflecting practical expertise in cloud integrations. Comfortable working alone or within matrixed teams, he pairs deep systems thinking with product focus—having launched startups, increased revenue and velocity, and even applied tech skills in high-impact social work. Now running a family farm while continuing technical leadership, he combines engineering rigor with hands-on operational experience.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Artificial Intellegence: Neural Computation, MSc, Artificial Intellegence: Neural Computation at The University of EdinburghBA, Major: Natural and Artificial Cognition/Minor: Computer Science, BA, Major: Natural and Artificial Cognition/Minor: Computer Science at Western Washington University
Github Skills (5)
json10
javascript10
aws10
api-gateway10
back-end-development9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
serverless/serverless
Dec 2015 - May 2020
⚡ Serverless Framework – Effortlessly build apps that auto-scale, incur zero costs when idle, and require minimal maintenance using AWS Lambda and other managed cloud services.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:140 commits, 84 PRs, 759 comments in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Erik's contributions centered on enhancing the Serverless Framework's API Gateway integration, specifically related to request and response template handling. They implemented improvements to the `EndpointBuildApiGateway.js` file, allowing for various content types and formats to be supported, specifically focusing on the correct parsing of JSON data. This involved adding code to ensure API Gateway compatibility and human-readable output. Furthermore, the user made updates to the credential loading process within the AWS provider, making it more robust and reliable.
aws-lambdaserverlessiot-applicationsawsgoogle-functions
SimonEismann/hello-retail
Nov 2017 - Sep 2018
“Hello, Retail!” is an open-source, mobile-first, 100% serverless functional proof-of-concept showcasing a complete event sourcing approach applied to the retail platform space.
Contributions:5 commits in 9 months
event-sourcingapproachserverlessretailproof-of-concept
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