Haakon Erichsen
VP Of Software Engineering, Experiences at Matterport
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolHaakon 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
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Github Skills (46)
webgl10
threejs10
javascript10
augmented-reality10
canvas10
virtual-reality10
webxr10
easy-thumbnails10
svg10
webgpu10
3d10
thumbnails10
semantic-versioning10
tooling9
semantic-release9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
haeric/bailey.js
Dec 2013 - Apr 2015
Contributions:3 releases, 295 commits, 17 PRs in 1 year 4 months
fluttercoffee
haeric/braidjump
Mar 2013 - May 2013
Contributions:10 commits in 1 month
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