Eric Larkin Email & Phone Number

Eugene, OR, US

San Francisco, CA, US

Advise the Heirloom software team on team structure, roles, management & recruiting, and system/platform architecture, tools & technologies.

Alameda, California, US

Advise the Sila Manufacturing Software and Data Systems teams.

Alameda, California, US

I returned to Sila in a short-term role to help position the data systems team for success in designing, developing, and deploying the Sila Digital Manufacturing Platform –– the systems & software infrastructure & applications that will be required for automotive-scale production at Sila's Moses Lake facility.

Alameda, California, US

• I recruited and led a small, expert team to adopt modern tools and best practices for software and systems engineering to help Sila make better batteries for a sustainable future:
• Joined as the leader and third member of Sila's data systems team, just as the company began a multi-year transition from research to scale-up.
• Collaborated closely with existing expert staff to recruit twelve more world-class software and systems engineers, with a focus on scaling (and where necessary, remediating) software platforms for ongoing.
• Created and communicated company-wide software issue management workflow with weekly cadence of triage, sprints and retrospectives.
• Led the consolidation 70-odd code repositories; instituted pull requests and code-review-before-merge.
• Led modernization of systems monitoring, established on-call rotation and incident management protocols.

Austin, Texas, US

• Assumed leadership of team tasked to write new manufacturing and material management application for Model 3 while continuing to maintain and improve legacy systems.
• Directed in-house development and multi-factory adoption of the software platform that now orchestrates all Model 3 production.
• Managed ongoing development of heavily customized 3rd-party manufacturing execution system to support quality and cost initiatives while dramatically improving reliability.
• Recruited and aligned dedicated product management, software engineering, infrastructure, support and integration teams, tripling headcount in 12 months.
• Worked with factory leadership to migrate Powerwall, Powerpack, and Supercharger production to new system.

Austin, Texas, US

• While continuing to manage development and delivery of fleet services, served as interim manager for core IT team, accountable for development and ongoing operation of Tesla global network, data centers, storage.
• Led review and redefinition of factory software roadmap, clarifying mission and aligning executive leadership.

Austin, Texas, US

• Managed development & delivery of server-side software to monitor, manage and enhance connected Tesla products, including vehicle, Powerwall, Powerpack and supercharger fleets.
• Grew and mentored world-class applications, data, diagnostics, communications and infrastructure teams to support and enable new features while remediating and scaling back-end services built for Roadster-era fleet.
• Provided server-side support for rewritten mobile app, vehicle autopilot and summon, display of supercharger congestion, and payment for supercharging (among other features).
• Re-engineered over-the-air firmware delivery to enable critical fleet-wide updates in hours instead of days. Implemented modern message-based fleet communications, petabyte-scale data platform, and.

Stanford, CA, US

• Periodically coach Stanford seniors majoring in product design on need-finding, brainstorming, design, prototyping and marketing of their year-long capstone project.
• Lecture on product design and manufacturing.

Los Gatos, CA, US

• Led successful re-engineering of prototype-quality mobile (iOS, Android, web) messaging service for medical care coordination to support 10x increase in active users.
• Tightened operational procedures and improved uptime: automated deployments, established development and QA environments, instituted 24x7 monitoring.
• Defined new competitive positioning and regional go-to-market strategy.
• Submitted five patent applications addressing key points of differentiation.
• Planned and managed first equity financing, facilitating transition to new CEO focused on commercial execution.

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• Led product strategy, design, development and delivery from Arena's founding. Arena PLM, Arena's flagship cloud Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) application, is used worldwide by thousands of manufacturers as their.
• Recruited, managed and mentored a diverse and talented team to design, develop and deliver the flagship application through more than fifty major releases. Also led successful development of new personal web.
• Served as executive spokesperson for all product-related customer communications, establishing Arena as the first trusted provider of cloud applications for manufacturing.
• Set up and managed production operations: defined and documented security and compliance practices, supervised incident response and communication. Maintained a cumulative weekday uptime of 99.99% over more than a.
• Obtained broad strategic patents addressing the use of multi-tenant software as a service applications for enterprise product lifecycle management.
• Pioneered the Arena Validation Maintenance Service, enabling Arena to serve FDA-regulated medical manufacturers with multi-tenant cloud applications.

• Managed multiple electro-mechanical development projects for the largest client of a development consultancy specializing in smart product design.
• Coordinated team of staff and outside consultants to meet objectives for features, cost and schedule.
• Supported contract manufacturers in the production of D2M-designed products.

• Recruited and led hardware engineering team that developed two patented consumer scanners (flatbed & sheetfed) in a 12-month period.

Marina, CA, US

• Bootstrapped vertically integrated design and manufacturing company. Light & Motion was profitable every year as sales quadrupled.
• Engineered performance-leading underwater lighting & imaging products, including electrical, mechanical and software engineering. By 1997, 90% of revenue came from products developed during my tenure.
• Set up and supervised in-house CNC machining, injection molding, and electro-mechanical assembly processes.

Cupertino, California, US

• Member of a team of three engineers whose work saw high-volume production as the Macintosh LC II, LC III, and LC 475.

M.S., Manufacturing Systems Engineering

M.S., Electrical Engineering

B.S., Mechanical Engineering

B.A., Philosophy & Religious Studies