Erik Nordlander

When I first came to New York as a software engineer, I worried that the only option for me was to work for a large bank, and write code while wearing a suit every day. I could not have been more wrong. New York’s tech and startup ecosystem has flourished since those early days. GV’s New York-based portfolio spans traditional industries like media, advertising and financial services, to new frontiers at the edge of machine learning, cloud infrastructure and cancer cures. There’s a diversity of talent here that is truly unique.

Erik is a general partner at GV, where he manages GV’s operations in New York and is part of the enterprise investing team. Erik has over a decade of technical experience as an engineering leader with expertise in building first-class teams and scaling massive systems. He has interests in developer tools, cloud infrastructure, and machine learning.

Prior to joining GV in 2010, Erik led the development of Google’s next generation display ad serving system. He helped with the acquisition and technical integration of DoubleClick (DCLK) and led a team that built statistical and machine learning models for Google’s ad businesses. Erik was also a developer on Google’s core infrastructure, creating a distributed file system that Google.com and Gmail rely on today.

Erik studied computer science and engineering at MIT. He completed his graduate research at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory where he focused on unique data extraction and disk forensics.

Erik is an avid runner and an expert in television game show theory.