Erin Dahlgren

I'm interested in quantum sensing (e.g. underwater GPS), patterns, collaboration, helping others understand things, sparking joy, empathy, and research :-)

Previously

Google: Senior Software Engineer, founding developer of Google's lightweight Linux container for untrusted code -- gVisor -- before it was open sourced (Go, C, C++). I helped grow it from a Stanford research prototype into something that serves billions of users and saves Google hundreds of millions of dollars.
Bump: Backend Engineer, functional programming, software transactional memory, and eventually consistent databases (Haskell, Python, C) [1]. Our Haskell server had an uptime of > 300 days for over 100 million daily active users which was totally surprising.
UChicago: Linguistics BA/MA with Anastasia Giannakidou (my advisor)computer science with Stu Kurtz. Here I realized I loved abstraction, patterns, and the connecting different domains like language, computer science, math, nature, and art.

Past projects

Nature-inspired AI: Also inspired by whales and bees, an artificial ant colony collaborates on finding the shortest path through Djibouti, Africa. With a bit of humility and wonder, we can learn a lot from other creatures: swarm intelligence [1, 2] (C, Javascript).
Research: Getting research software to work [1]. I worked with some cool researchers to study a computer science conference. We scored and rewarded papers with useful code so it's possible for anyone to get creative with publicly funded research.

Awards

Google: 2017 Technical Infrastructure (TI) award

(resume - updated 06.2023)