Erik Schannen
Founder And CTO at Uvilo
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolErik Schannen is a founder and CTO with 11+ years of hands-on experience building SaaS platforms across e-commerce, entertainment, health & fitness, and the creator economy from his base in Old Toronto. He founded Uvilo, a quantified-self oriented life coaching platform, co-founded early streaming pioneer Entruphema/Sureflix, and led engineering for Etail21, an automated dropshipping integration for major storefronts. Erik combines strategic architecture, security and quality standards with people management and process automation to align technology with sales, marketing, HR, finance and support. A pragmatic full‑stack engineer, he contributes to open-source—improving form systems and cross-framework compatibility in VulcanJS—demonstrating attention to UX details like unsaved-change alerts and revert behavior. Collected experience launching products end-to-end gives him a rare perspective on the operational and business trade-offs of scaling SaaS.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Toronto
Github Skills (13)
javascript10
meteor10
react10
wpgraphql9
ui-design9
front-end-development9
wordpress-graphql9
uid9
graphql9
bootstra8
bootstrap8
css7
html7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
VulcanJS/Vulcan
Oct 2017 - Feb 2021
🌋 A toolkit to quickly build apps with React, GraphQL & Meteor
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 108 commits, 172 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Erik primarily contributed to the `vulcanjs/vulcan` repository by refactoring and enhancing the form components. They abstracted bootstrap-specific components and enabled Material-UI framework compatibility. Furthermore, the user improved form behavior by adding features like user alerts for unsaved changes, adding a revert button, and refetching capabilities. The user also implemented improvements to email template variables and bug fixes.
reactmeteorreact-graphqlserver-renderingtoolkit
ErikDakoda/Vulcan-Extras
Oct 2018 - Mar 2021
Contributions:4 releases, 35 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
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