Scott Erickson
Co-Founder at Vendata Software LLC
Richmond, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Erickson is a seasoned software leader and serial founder with 12 years of experience building web-first products and teams, currently co-founding Vendata Software and developing LLM-powered SaaS like FamilyCaller. He blends hands-on full-stack engineering—spanning frontend frameworks like Vue, backend services, AWS infrastructure, and databases—with product-minded leadership honed at CodeCombat and Dropbox. At CodeCombat he helped evolve a widely used educational coding game, modernizing the stack and shipping classroom features while contributing to the open-source project’s robustness and UX. Scott is skilled at leveraging the growing open-source and AI tooling ecosystem to deliver low-cost, impactful applications and to iterate product-market fit through experimentation. He also brings uncommon operational breadth from founding Skritter and earlier roles—doing everything from iOS development to sysadmin and customer ops—which informs pragmatic decisions about process and scaling. Based in Richmond, California, he pairs technical depth with deliberate team-building to turn complex ideas into reliable, teachable products.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science with Higher Honors, BA Computer Science with Higher Honors at Oberlin College
French
Github Skills (10)
error-handling10
javascript10
front-end-development10
vue10
vue-jsx10
apidoc9
back-end-development9
api9
ui-design8
testing7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
codecombat/codecombat
Jan 2014 - May 2018
Game for learning how to code.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2693 commits, 265 PRs, 2132 pushes in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Scott focused on refactoring network error handling, improving the robustness of UI components, and implementing a new form for teacher accounts in this game-based learning platform. They contributed code related to the handling of web requests, as well as updates to the UI using Vue and related components. The user worked on the user's access management, and the overall system's usability and appearance.
game
codecombat/treema
Aug 2013 - Oct 2016
Contributions:388 commits, 10 pushes, 2 comments in 3 years 2 months
jquerydefinedjavascriptjson-datajquery-plugin
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