Erika Reinhardt

Executive Director, Co-Founder

Spark Climate Solutions

Oct 2021 - Current (4 years 8 months)

I co-founded and lead Spark Climate Solutions, a science-driven nonprofit dedicated to identifying and mitigating sources of unmanaged climate risk. Spark accelerates progress in emerging, high-impact climate fields. By working directly with scientists, policymakers, and peer organizations, Spark supports the growth of emerging fields with the potential to limit warming, monitor and manage Earth systems risk, and help enable our return to a safe climate. Spark focuses on expanding the portfolio of mitigation and adaptation approaches that enable our return to a safe climate and minimize environmental and social risks along the way. Spark’s first programs focus on large, under-addressed methane areas that currently represent unmanaged risk

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Climate philanthropy and projects

Primordium Foundation and Fund

Mar 2021 - Current (5 years 3 months)

Funding and working on various climate-action non-profit initiatives

Elections Team Co-Lead

US Digital Response

Mar 2020 - Nov 2020 (9 months)

Started and co-led U.S. Digital Response's elections-related efforts, working directly with local and state election offices, and NGOs that serve them, to ensure that they have the products and technical expertise they need to most-effectively run elections. https://www.usdigitalresponse.org/elections This program later became part of the US Alliance for Election Excellence https://www.techandciviclife.org/us-alliance-for-election-excellence-launch/

Head of Payments Experience, Head of Engineering for Terminal

Stripe

Oct 2017 - Oct 2019 (2 years 1 month)

I led the Payments Experience group at Stripe, which is a set of 4 teams working together to empower merchants to easily provide great online checkout experiences for their customers. I led our product response to, and user migration for, the Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) regulation in Europe, at times involving 100+ Stripes across many teams. We brought the new Stripe Checkout from early concept to general availability and early adoption, launched the new Payments APIs, built our Mobile Authentication SDKs, and built tooling to help users manage their migration. I simultaneously also led engineering for Stripe Terminal, a set of 4 teams building our in-person point of sale developer platform. During my time on the team, we brought

Engineering Director

OpenAI

Nov 2016 - Aug 2017 (10 months)

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Co-Founder

VotePlz

Aug 2016 - Nov 2016 (4 months)

Co-founded VotePlz, a non-partisan non-profit, to increase voter turnout for the 2016 election, particularly among millennials, by easing the voter registration process, and building tools to help citizens make a plan to vote, prepare their ballot, and find early voting information.

Director of Product Engineering

Planet

Nov 2015 - Aug 2016 (10 months)

Platform Team Lead

Planet Labs

Dec 2014 - Nov 2015 (1 year)

Software Engineer

Planet Labs

Jun 2012 - Dec 2014 (2 years 7 months)

Software Engineering Intern

Facebook

May 2011 - Aug 2011 (4 months)

Robotics Research Student

Technion Israel Institute of Technology

May 2010 - Aug 2010 (4 months)

Bone-scanning control in knee surgery robot

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Robotics Control and Simulation Research Student

Robot Locomotion Group Comp Sci and AI Lab MIT

Jan 2010 - May 2010 (5 months)

Underactuated walking robot simulation, dynamics and control

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