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 want to go next: building production-grade agentic and AI systems.

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.