Urban Eriksson
Co-Founder at VALIDIO
Stockholm, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolUrban Eriksson is a technology leader and co-founder with 11 years of focused experience turning messy data into reliable insights and scalable products. Based in Stockholm, he founded Validio after a career-long frustration with poor data quality, and he now builds tools to validate and rescue data at scale. His background spans research and industry roles—from a PhD in optoelectronic integrated circuits and research engineering at KTH to leading data science and engineering teams at Finisar and Optillion—bringing both rigorous academic thinking and production-hardened engineering. Holder of seven international patents on algorithms, he blends inventive algorithm design with pragmatic product execution. Outside work he aims to "create beauty through algorithms," and he admits a soft spot for ice cream—hinting at a mix of precision and human curiosity in his approach.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Optoelectronic integrated circuits, Ph.D. Optoelectronic integrated circuits at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyHolder of seven international patents on algorithms, Holder of seven international patents on algorithms at International patent holder
English, German
Github Skills (6)
ethercat8
industrial-automation8
time-management7
x-plane6
timezone5
intervals4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
urban-eriksson/spazetime
Sep 2019 - Jul 2020
The new paradigm for global time keeping
Contributions:58 commits, 53 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
traveldaylight-saving-timeparadigmspacetimetime-keeping
urban-eriksson/isabelle
Dec 2022 - Sep 2024
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 38 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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