Summary
Haakon Erichsen is a senior software engineering leader with 13 years of experience building immersive user experiences and 3D platforms, currently VP of Software Engineering, Experiences at Matterport in San Francisco. An early Matterport engineer, he built the company’s first WebGL 3D viewer and has progressed through roles as architect, tech lead, and product-minded engineering manager overseeing web, WebGL/WebXR, iOS and Android frontends. He combines deep hands-on expertise in WebGL, JavaScript and Python with platform and performance engineering experience across CDN and caching layers like Fastly, memcached and Redis. Known for wearing many hats, Haakon blends product intuition with architectural rigor to ship complex, cross-platform interactive experiences. He enjoys prototyping in emerging stack pieces such as WebXR and Three.js while maintaining strong backend fluency in Django and relational databases. Colleagues rely on him to bridge UX-driven design and scalable engineering in 3D-first web products.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet