Summary
Erik Labianca is a seasoned technology leader and entrepreneur with over 15 years of hands-on engineering and 20+ years of cross-industry experience building scalable data and distributed systems. As CTO and cofounder of The Seventh Sense and CTO of Synaptiq, he blends practical architecture with product leadership to deliver streaming data pipelines, predictive profiling engines, and AI-ready data platforms at scale. His technical toolkit spans Scala, Akka, Kafka/Kinesis, AWS, Elasticsearch and functional programming, and he has a strong track record in performance engineering and information security. Erik’s career bridges startups and established organizations—from National Geographic to healthcare SaaS—where he’s implemented secure, repeatable deployment and operational practices. Uniquely, he pairs a physics-and-anthropology academic background with deep systems intuition, often applying quantitative thinking to user-centered product challenges. Based in Washington, D.C., he balances executive responsibilities with active engineering involvement and a love of ice hockey and trail running.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Andrews Academy
BS Physics Anthropology Math Computer Science, BS Physics Anthropology Math Computer Science at Andrews University
Physics, Physics at La Sierra University