# Daniel Erickson

> Daniel Erickson is a software engineer, engineering leader and co-founder of Viable, the customer feedback analysis startup he led until its closure in 2024. After joining Airtable, he moved to Vercel, where his public biography identifies him as Engineering Director, Agent Stack. Based in Silverton, Oregon, he writes about systems, product development and teams.

- **Role:** Engineering Director, Agent Stack at Vercel
- **Organizations:** Vercel, Airtable, Viable, Eaze, Getable, Yammer, Storify
- **Education:** Computer science studies; left without a degree, Southern Oregon University
- **Known for:** Co-founded and led Viable, an early commercial user of GPT-3 for qualitative feedback analysis., Built a gender-balanced engineering team at Getable, according to his 2022 interview., Created Atomify to help bundle modular front-end code.

## Career timeline

- **2006** — Co-founded an app development agency in Portland with his identical twin, Jeff.
- **2010** — Worked at Storify.
- **2011–2013** — Senior JavaScript engineer at Yammer.
- **2013** — Became CTO at Getable.
- **2016** — Joined Eaze; subsequently served as VP of Engineering.
- **2020** — Co-founded Viable with Jeff Erickson, initially focused on measuring product-market fit.
- **2021** — Viable appeared in OpenAI’s GPT-3 applications showcase.
- **2024** — Announced Viable’s shutdown after 4.5 years and his move to Airtable.
- **2025** — Joined Vercel; publicly discussed the move in July.

## Achievements

- Co-founded and led Viable, an early commercial user of GPT-3 for qualitative feedback analysis.
- Built a gender-balanced engineering team at Getable, according to his 2022 interview.
- Created Atomify to help bundle modular front-end code.

## Latest updates

- **2024-07** — Announced that he had shut Viable down after 4.5 years and had joined Airtable about a month earlier; shared the Cobuilder launch.
- **2025-07** — Publicly discussed joining Vercel and praised colleague Lars Grammel’s engineering taste.
- **2026-10** — Public X biography checked during research lists Engineering Director, Agent Stack at Vercel, with AI SDK, AI Gateway and Workflow DevKit.

## Links

- Website: https://techwraith.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielerickson
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/techwraith
- GitHub: https://github.com/techwraith

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Last updated: 2026-10-22