Summary
Erik Holstad is a senior staff engineer with 17 years of software experience who blends deep systems and architecture expertise with pragmatic, team-first leadership. Currently at LinkedIn, he has driven multi‑region infrastructure migrations, improved upgrade reliability across large host fleets, and authored operational standards that reduced production risk. His background spans startups and established companies where he’s built data platforms, persistence layers, and high‑volume ingestion pipelines using technologies like MongoDB, Solr, Cassandra, HBase and Hadoop. Known for meticulous attention to detail and disciplined organization, he pairs hands‑on coding with mentoring and cross‑organization incident coordination. He’s particularly skilled at taking projects from infancy to production readiness while translating technical tradeoffs for non‑technical stakeholders. Colleagues describe him as transparently competitive yet fair, cultivating productive and enjoyable engineering environments.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Chalmers University of Technology