Stefan Erickson
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarStefan Erickson is a product-focused CTO and founder with 11 years of experience building and scaling software for startups and enterprises, currently leading a stealth startup out of Dallas. He blends hands-on system design and full-stack engineering (TypeScript, Go, Python, React) with product strategy to drive growth—having taken a fintech platform through SEC registration and led $10M+ enterprise transformations. As founder of Day Zero he advises early-stage teams to reach product-market fit faster, emphasizing pragmatic trade-offs between speed, scalability, and user experience. At Dialexa he designed solutions for Fortune 500 clients while coaching engineering teams toward higher delivery and quality standards. Comfortable across cloud, security, and compliance (AWS, Kubernetes, SOC2, SEC/FINRA), he also integrates ML/LLM capabilities and data pipelines into product roadmaps. Colleagues describe him as a builder who prefers measurable business impact over technical novelty, and who intentionally pairs technical depth with clear product outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (26)
jquery-plugin10
behave9
jquery8
bem7
language-server7
html5-video7
templating6
oocss6
server-side-rendering6
javascript6
htmx5
sass5
css5
go3
react3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
scerickson/covervid
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
Make your HTML5 video behave like a background cover image with this lightweight Javascript plugin / jQuery extension
Contributions:1 release, 3 commits, 7 PRs in 1 day
cover-imagehtml5-videojqueryjavascriptbehave
scerickson/scerickson.io
Sep 2024 - Jan 2025
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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