Erik Runia

While still a young lad, Erik discovered that learning to program gave him infinite lives while playing Gorillas on a Windows 3.1 machine. Once he realized other kids would buy programs he'd written on his TI-82 calculator, he never looked back. His first job in high school landed him at a tiny startup with big dreams. The Dot Com Boom made those dreams a reality, and on paper Erik was suddenly a millionaire. Young, naive, and utterly unaware of the impending Dot Com Bubble burst, Erik wisely saved his millions on paper for future use, all the while learning the latest and greatest web programming techniques that would make him what he is today: A non-millionaire, not in any way bitter, web savvy guy. These days Erik spends the most time with Microsoft technologies like MVC4, ASP.net, Razor and WCF. Of course front end design and user experience is Erik's real passion and first love. Blending the two together effortlessly is what makes him so darn irresistable.