Erik Landerholm Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, Us

Co-founded Release, built the initial product, and led the company through significant growth in both technical capabilities and funding. Developed the backend services and managed an engineering team while overseeing product development. Drove customer success through platform innovations, significantly improving efficiency for complex web and AI applications.Key Accomplishments:* Co-founded Release alongside Tommy McClung and David Giffin.* Built a prototype and acquired the first customers within three months.* Joined Y Combinator in Winter 2020 and raised a seed round from Sequoia at the onset of COVID-19.* Grew the company to nearly $1 million in ARR over two years.* Raised a $20 million Series A round led by CRV and Sequoia.* Developed the backend services for the initial product.* Hired and managed a team of seven engineers, eventually hiring an engineering manager and expanding responsibilities to oversee product development.* Implemented a tech stack including Next.js, Chakra, and Apollo GraphQL on the frontend, with Rails, Postgres, Redis, and Temporal for the backend, all running on Kubernetes.* Utilized Release's own platform to build and manage the company’s infrastructure.* Increased some customers’ feature throughput by as much as 10,000% through platform innovation.

Santa Monica, California, Us

While serving as Chief Architect at TrueCar, also took on the role of SVP of Software Engineering, managing over 80 direct reports and overseeing the entire software development organization. Led major initiatives to improve efficiency, transition to Agile, and execute a full technology stack rewrite. Spearheaded a large-scale migration from data centers to AWS, driving improvements in deployment frequency and cost efficiency.Key Accomplishments:* Reorganized software development teams for greater efficiency.* Accelerated the transition to Agile development practices.* Oversaw the complete rewrite of the technology stack.* Led the migration from two data centers to AWS.* Managed 10+ SCRUM teams, including front and backend developers, QA, data engineers, and data scientists.* Increased monthly deployments from 3-4 to hundreds through Agile transformation.* Migrated the internal Data Platform and Data Science technology to AWS using CloudBreak, Spark Streaming, and SageMaker.* Trained and hired a staff of ~120 on new technologies including Rails, React, React Native, ElasticSearch, Postgres, Git, RSpec, Flood.io, Cypress.js, Kinesis, and Lambda.* Reduced infrastructure and headcount costs by 30% while increasing throughput.* Led multiple proof-of-concept (POC) initiatives, such as evaluating Kafka vs Kinesis for ESB and testing email providers like ExactTarget vs Strongview.* Streamlined sales and operations processes by collaborating directly with those teams.* Led the creation of an internal CMS solution for 700+ white-labeled partner sites, reusing over 90% of the code from TrueCar.com, improving efficiency compared to previous custom solutions.

Santa Monica, California, Us

Joined TrueCar through the acquisition of CarWoo! in 2014 as Chief Architect, reporting directly to the CTO. Played a key role in defining software development practices, running POCs for new technologies, and modernizing TrueCar’s software stack and processes. Led initiatives to improve code reuse, customer data protection, and development efficiency, resulting in significant technical advancements across the organization.Key Accomplishments:* Implemented a modified version of GitFlow to standardize the development process across the organization.* Collaborated to develop Gluestick (https://github.com/TrueCar/gluestick), optimizing frontend development and reducing reliance on dedicated mobile teams. Achieved 95% code reuse on Android and 98% on iOS.* Developed an email/phone proxy system to protect customer data during lead submissions, processing millions of emails daily and routing them to thousands of consumers and dealers.* Initiated the creation of a CI/CD pipeline by migrating small services to AWS and establishing automated testing (unit, functional, integration, performance, and gatekeeper tests). This transitioned the organization from manual testing to automated deployments.* Authored comprehensive internal documentation on the development process, covering topics like GitFlow, pull requests, testing tools, and feature-flag-driven deployment strategies.* Expanded from the sole architect in 2014 to managing a team of 10 architects across mobile, data, infrastructure, and web platforms.* Led the development of TrueCar's modern technology stack, including:* Building Gluestick (https://github.com/TrueCar/gluestick)* Transitioning developers to Rails* Creating Wormhole (Enterprise Service Bus)* Migrating all applications from two data centers to AWS* Implementing a fully automated CI/CD pipeline, increasing deployments from one every eight days in 2014 to hundreds per month by 2018/2019.

Burlingame, California, Us

Co-founded CarWoo! in October 2008 and participated in Y Combinator Summer 2009. Contributed significantly to all aspects of the company, including technology development, fundraising, product sales, and engineering management. Played a key role in raising over $20M and leading the acquisition by TrueCar in 2014.Key Accomplishments:* Accepted and completed YC Summer 09, resulting in a product launch, multiple funding rounds, and ultimately an acquisition by TrueCar in 2014.* Instrumental in raising over $20M for CarWoo! over five years.* Grew the supplier base (Car Dealers) from 0 to 14,000 in 2-3 years by creating social media bots and internal tools.* Contributed over 40% of the codebase while managing a team of 10-12 engineers.* Developed and managed a CI/CD pipeline that supported hundreds of deploys per month.* Created anonymous email and phone proxy systems that allowed thousands of customers to communicate with suppliers while remaining anonymous.* Built large-scale scraping farms to gather and normalize messy automotive data.* Developed a credit card vault and billing system for thousands of dealers and customers from scratch.* Designed a Bayesian-based classifier to predict consumer readiness to buy a car within 2-3 weeks, resulting in a 300% increase in consumer lead quality for dealers.