Where does Erik Meijer work?

Erik Meijer is Venture Scout at Storm Ventures.

Where did Erik Meijer go to school?

Erik Meijer studied at Radboud University (PhD, Mathematics and Computer Science); Radboud University (Msc (cum laude), Computer Science).

Erik Meijer

Investor

Venture Scout at Storm Ventures

Palo Alto, California, United States

About

Erik Meijer is a Research Scholar at Leibniz Labs focused on developing programming languages for artificial intelligence. With 35 years of experience in language and type system design, he has contributed to the development of Haskell, C#, Visual Basic, Dart, and Hack, and advised on Java, Scala, JavaScript, and Kotlin. His career includes leadership roles at Microsoft and Facebook, where he designed reactive programming infrastructure and server-side frameworks, as well as the invention of Rx, a reactive programming technology now implemented across numerous languages and platforms. He holds honorary professorships and serves on the ACM Queue Editorial Board, with over 149 granted patents and extensive academic publications in programming languages and machine learning.

Experience

Leibniz LabsResearch Scholarcurrent2024 — presentPalo Alto, California, United States
Normal ComputingSenior Fellowcurrent2025 — present
University of NottinghamHonorary Professor of Programming Language Design2013 — 2025
FacebookSenior Director of Engineering2015 — 2024Menlo Park
TU DelftProfessor of Big Data Engineering2011 — 2018Delft Area, Netherlands
Applied Duality, Inc.President and founder2013 — 2015
MicrosoftPartner Architect2000 — 2013
Universiteit UtrechtAssociate Professor1992 — 2000
Oregon Graduate InstituteVisiting professor1997 — 1998

Education

Radboud UniversityPhD, Mathematics and Computer Science1986 — 1992
Radboud UniversityMsc (cum laude), Computer Science1981 — 1986

Skills & more

C#99C++19Java27Python14C5LaTeX5.NET36LINQ39Visual Studio14JavaScript9Visual Basic2Microsoft SQL Server9

+12 more

Objective-CRESTRubySubversionOpen SourcePerlHadoopEclipseComputer ScienceSoftware EngineeringDistributed SystemsAlgorithms

Languages Dutch · English

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Colleagues at Storm Ventures

Abby Kearns

Investor at Storm Ventures

Ahmed Al-Bahar

Entrepreneur in Residence at Storm Ventures

Alex Mendez

Managing Director Emeritus at Storm Ventures

Arun Penmetsa

Partner at Storm Ventures

Christian Weniger

Venture Partner at Storm Ventures

Daniel von Devivere

Venture Scout at Storm Ventures

David Somers

Partner at Storm Ventures

Emily Moskowitz

Entrepreneur in Residence at Storm Ventures

Frequently asked questions

Who is Erik Meijer?: Erik Meijer is a Research Scholar at Leibniz Labs focused on developing programming languages for artificial intelligence. With 35 years of experience in language and type system design, he has contributed to the development of Haskell, C#, Visual Basic, Dart, and Hack, and advised on Java, Scala, JavaScript, and Kotlin. His career includes leadership roles at Microsoft and Facebook, where he designed reactive programming infrastructure and server-side frameworks, as well as the invention of Rx, a reactive programming technology now implemented across numerous languages and platforms. He holds honorary professorships and serves on the ACM Queue Editorial Board, with over 149 granted patents and extensive academic publications in programming languages and machine learning.
Where does Erik Meijer work?: Erik Meijer is Venture Scout at Storm Ventures.
Where did Erik Meijer go to school?: Erik Meijer studied at Radboud University (PhD, Mathematics and Computer Science); Radboud University (Msc (cum laude), Computer Science).