Erik has close to 40 years of professional experience in hardware and software development. He started programming on a Tandy Model III when he was 12 years old and hasn't stopped since then.

He was born and raised in France, but moved to the US when he was offered a job at Apple in his early twenties. After Apple, he started and sold a few companies and did a lot of consulting.

You probably know Erik as the author of one of the first Linkblog, mostly focused on Java, which he ran for 7 years in the early 2000s. Or maybe as the author of a weekly column published in the Java Developer's Journal around the same time frame.

Erik is a cancer survivor.

Erik holds a Ph. D. in Computer Science from the Joint Doctoral Program of the University of California, San Francisco and the University of California, Berkeley.

Erik is bilingual. He speaks, reads and writes in both English and French.

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