Summary
Eriks Klotins is a Senior Lecturer and seasoned software engineer with 12 years in the industry and a decade-long academic focus on how start-ups build and evolve software products. He combines hands-on development and CTO-level consultancy experience with applied research toward a practical engineering roadmap that helps startups choose practices, tools and verification strategies tailored to product complexity and lifecycle stage. His work bridges continuous software engineering adoption in large organizations (Telia, Ericsson, Spotify) and lightweight, pragmatic approaches for fast-moving teams, informed by primary data collected from tech startups. Comfortable in many languages and stacks, he has led cross-cultural, large-team deliveries and turned high-technical-debt systems around while keeping user experience central. Outside academia he’s an endurance athlete and extreme-sports enthusiast, a detail that reflects his disciplined, iterative approach to both engineering and research.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
-, Programming, IT, -, Programming, IT at Riga Technical College
Master's degree, Software Engineering, Master's degree, Software Engineering at Latvijas Universitate
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Software Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Software Engineering at Blekinge Institute of Technology
English, Latvian, Russian, Swedish