Erik Trautman is an entrepreneurial technology leader with 13 years of experience building education, blockchain, and energy-focused ventures, currently serving as EV Wrangler at Hank the Bus in Austin. He has founded and scaled platforms like The Odin Project and Viking Education, led operations and CEO roles at NEAR Foundation and Satori Technologies, and brings hands-on product and governance experience across electrification, energy markets, and crypto ecosystems. A full-stack contributor to NEAR Protocol documentation, he blends developer fluency with executive strategy to build developer ecosystems that disrupt incumbent systems. Erik pairs a Penn engineering background and early energy trading analytics experience with a no-nonsense, systems-level approach to policy, elections, and carbon reduction. He invests, votes, makes art, and is known for insisting on pragmatic, high-integrity solutions rather than compromise.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Phillips Academy
N/A Entrepreneurship, N/A Entrepreneurship at Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship
BSE Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, BSE Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at University of Pennsylvania
Contributions:85 commits, 2 PRs, 94 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Erik primarily contributed to the documentation of the NEAR Protocol by modifying and updating the "The Basics" section. Their work involved code changes within the documentation files, including updating content and potentially restructuring information. The commits demonstrate a focus on improving and refining the documentation, with edits to language and the removal of deprecated properties.
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