Erik Meijer (computer scientist)

Erik Meijer
Erik Meijer in 2009.
Born	(1963-04-18) 18 April 1963 (age 62) Curaçao
Education	Nijmegen University, Ph.D., 1992
Known for	Functional programming Haskell language research Work on: C#, Visual Basic .NET, LINQ, Volta, reactive programming framework (ReactiveX) for .NET Framework
Awards	Microsoft: Outstanding Technical Achievement, 2007; Outstanding Technical Leadership, 2009
Scientific career
Fields	Computer science, functional programming
Institutions	Utrecht University Microsoft Facebook Delft University of Technology University of Nottingham Applied Duality Inc.

Erik Meijer (born 18 April 1963, Curaçao) is a Dutch computer scientist and entrepreneur. From 2000 to early 2013, he was a software architect for Microsoft where he headed the Cloud Programmability Team.^[1] He then founded Applied Duality Inc.^[2] in 2013. Before that, he was an associate professor at Utrecht University. From 2015 to 2024, he was a Senior Director of Engineering at Facebook (now Meta)^[3] and subsequently stated, after leaving, that there is “no advantage to be inside a large corp if you want to build cool stuff on top of LLMS (Large Language Models).”^[4]