Erik Tillberg
Co-Founder at Orbits
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolErik Tillberg is a seasoned technology leader and serial founder with a decade of experience building mobile-first products and backend systems from concept to market. As CTO and co-founder of The Happenin Company and later iMerciv, he led engineering teams to deliver ticketing and vendor apps, a pedestrian navigation engine with accessibility-aware routing, and recommendation algorithms—raising over $1.2M in combined funding. He is comfortable across the stack (React/React Native front-ends, Python backends, MongoDB/SQL databases, and Java for routing engines) and has repeatedly turned algorithmic ideas into production services. Erik blends hands-on engineering with product-minded leadership, having managed and scaled teams at Super.com and co-founded multiple startups. A background in academic research and teaching (University of Toronto, Lakehead University) informs his focus on performant algorithms and practical ML for user-facing features. Based in Vancouver, he has a knack for shipping pragmatic, safety- and accessibility-focused routing and recommendation systems that solve real-world problems.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Honors Bachelor - Computer Science, Honors Bachelor - Computer Science at Lakehead UniversityMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Toronto
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Github Skills (26)
react-native-module9
native-module9
offline-maps8
react-native7
expo7
gestures7
react7
maps6
pdf-generation6
api6
gesture6
pinch6
flatlist6
puppeteer6
react-native-component6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
LakeheadUComputerScienceSociety/LUCSSWebsite
Jun 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:5 PRs, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
hugojekyll
ErikTillberg/Virtual-Stock-Simulator
Sep 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:46 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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