Techpreneur and the Founder Of Atomic Object, Carl Erickson

Carl Erickson is the chairman and founder of Atomic Object, a company that creates specialised online, mobile, and embedded software. Atomic Object has served as a platform for him to develop and implement these ideas.

Carl enjoys problem-solving and challenging the existing quo in order to innovate and generate value. Carl is a firm believer in the importance of labour, that businesses should be a force for good in their communities, and that everyone should have a job that delivers more than just a paycheck.
Carl’s first job was as a computer science professor at Grand Valley State University from 1991 until 2000, where he taught networking, operating systems, architecture, and object technology courses. As a part-time industrial lecturer at Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden, where he taught a course called “Software Craftsmanship,” he extended his professorial obligations until 2009 and rediscovered his Swedish background.

When he founded Atomic Object in 2001, the business was in shambles: unreliable software, blown budgets, missing deadlines, and a slew of features that no one utilised. Companies were handling software development as if it were an assembly line process, which resulted in some dreadful products.

He and his team intended to create high-quality software that people would want to use. And to do it by recognising software development as a skill and restoring the human aspect to it. They welcomed innovative procedures like Agile from the outset, which returned power and responsibility to individual artisans. They also instilled the habit of testing on a regular basis in their DNA. After nailing code quality, they focused on predictability and improved their project management skills.