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Daniel Erickson

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Engineering Director, Agent Stack at Vercel
📍 Silverton, Oregon, United States

Daniel Erickson is the Director of AI Enablement at Vercel, leading teams working on the AI SDK and Gateway. A self-taught coder, he skipped college to launch his first company at 16 and later founded Viable, one of the first startups to utilize the GPT-3 API.

Originally from Oregon, Daniel grew up with his identical twin brother, who was also his first co-founder. He spent his childhood as a competitive gymnast, an experience he credits for teaching him resilience and how to learn from failure, a mindset he applies to entrepreneurship.

Unique fact: He started his first tech consulting company with his twin brother when they were just 16 years old.

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Experience
12 Years
Current Role
Engineering Director, Agent Stack
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Silverton, Oregon, United States
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Applied AI
His career focus is on building practical AI systems. He founded Viable to turn qualitative customer feedback into actionable insights and now leads AI enablement at Vercel.
Systems Thinking
He applies principles from the book "Thinking in Systems" to understand complex business and engineering problems, aiming to find key leverage points for impactful change.
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Career

Work history

7-2025
Engineering Director, Agent Stack
Vercel
6-2024 - 7-2025
AI Engineering
Airtable
1-2020 - 5-2024
Founder and CEO
Viable
6-2016 - 9-2019
VP Engineering
Eaze - Marijuana Delivered
3-2013 - 5-2016
Chief Technology Officer
Getable
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Education
2006 - 2008
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Southern Oregon University
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