Erik Pettersson
Fullstack engineer with 16+ years building scalable systems. Recently designed AI workflows and pipelines at Solva (Y Combinator). Early employee at Tink (acquired by Visa for $2.2B), shipped backend services handling billions of requests at Apple, built Dreamwod as a solo founder.
I care about both ends: clean APIs and reliable infrastructure, but also the UX details that make products enjoyable to use.
I also do CrossFit, sail a Mamba 34, and cross country ski when there’s snow.
Experience
Solva Technology (YC S25) - Founding AI Engineer (Oct 2025 - Jan 2026)
- First employee. Building the full stack - frontend, backend, infrastructure, security, and ML/AI pipelines.
Apple - Senior Software Engineer, Consultant (Oct 2022 - Apr 2024)
- 3D Vision team. Deployed and scaled backend services.
Mendi - Interim Tech Lead (Mar 2021 - Aug 2021)
- Interim tech lead. Led mobile app and backend development.
Dreamwod - Founder & Developer (Nov 2020 - Present)
- Solo founder. Designed and built the entire product from scratch. Used by gyms around the world.
Stravito - Tech Lead, Consultant (Apr 2019 - Apr 2020)
- Technical leadership and backend development for research and knowledge SaaS platform.
Tink - Various roles (Dec 2014 - Apr 2019)
- Tech Lead - PFM (Jun 2018 - Apr 2019) - Led the personal finance management team.
- Tech Lead - Payments (Oct 2018 - Mar 2019) - Led the payments team and product.
- Backend Chapter Lead (Dec 2017 - Jun 2018) - Led backend developers across teams.
- Forward Deployed Engineer at ABN AMRO (Jan 2016 - Dec 2017) - Worked onsite in Amsterdam building the Grip App. Led development projects involving backend, infrastructure, and frontend.
- Software Engineer (Dec 2014 - Jan 2016)
Side Projects
Weightlifting Clinic - AI-powered personal weightlifting coaching prototype. Video analysis of olympic lifts using computer vision. Tech: Go, YOLO, Flutter.