Erik Swenson
Chief Operating Officer
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolErik Swenson is a developer-turned-COO with 11 years in technology leadership and a software engineering foundation dating back to 1999. Based in Minneapolis, he currently leads operations at SPARK by Ignify Technologies, drawing on prior roles as VP of Platform Services and Lead Architect at Community Reinvestment Fund where he bridged architecture, platform strategy, and delivery. His hands-on background as a former software and lead engineer gives him a practical, systems-first approach to operationalizing engineering teams and product roadmaps. Erik is skilled at translating complex technical requirements into scalable, auditable platforms that support mission-driven financial services. Colleagues rely on him to balance long-term architecture with day-to-day execution, a perspective shaped by moving from individual contributor to executive. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Macalester College and is known for keeping engineering rigor central to operational decisions.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Macalester College
Github Skills (12)
style-transfer7
music6
python5
deep-learning4
medical3
machine-learning2
nlp2
vector-search1
artificial-intelligence1
large-language-models1
ai1
llm1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
TeamEGG/style_transfer
Nov 2018 - Dec 2018
Music Style Transfer Using Deep Learning
Contributions:31 commits, 22 PRs, 16 pushes in 28 days
pythonstyle-transfermusic-style-transferdeep-learningmusic
eswens13/CS355
Sep 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:55 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.