Erik
Bjorklund

My path into software is unconventional. I studied Biomedical Engineering at UW-Madison, focusing on bio-instrumentation, which is all about translating the body’s mechanical and electrical signals into data that computers can process. Between programming microcontrollers for Brain-Computer Interface research and my undergraduate CS coursework, I realized software was what I wanted to do.

My first professional role at Orthogonal brought those worlds together. I built mobile apps for BLE-connected medical devices, working under strict regulatory standards (QMS) while shipping real products. That’s where I picked up Flutter, which has since become one of my strongest tools.

At the PGA of America, I grew from a mobile engineer into a full-stack tech lead on a Ruby on Rails platform. I led Stripe integration projects, including a new subscription service that unlocked $14K in monthly recurring revenue. I authored technical specs and built dashboards in Looker and Amplitude to keep the team grounded in real product data. Recently, I developed a production AI pipeline using Firecrawl, Pydantic, and the OpenAI API to scrape partner job sites into structured data, then uploaded to Salesforce. That project crystallized where I’m most excited to go next: building production-grade AI systems, while continuing to grow as a full-stack engineer.

I’m an eager learner, and I love building as a team. There’s something uniquely satisfying about shipping great work through genuine collaboration, the kind where engineers and non-technical stakeholders are actually in sync. I’m looking for a team where I can bring my unusual background and curiosity to the AI engineering problems that matter most right now.