ABOUT

Erin Jerri Malonzo Pañgilinan

SOFTWARE ENGINEER, COMPUTATIONAL DESIGNER, TECH STARTUP ENTREPRENEUR. AUTHOR. NON-PROFIT FOUNDER, LEADER.

OFFICIAL BIO

Erin Jerri Malonzo Pañgilinan is a software engineer, startup founder, and former CTO working at the intersection of AI, spatial computing, and web3.

She is widely known as the lead author of Creating Augmented and Virtual Realities: Theory and Practice for Next-Generation Spatial Computing (O’Reilly Media), which debuted as the #1 book in Amazon’s Game Programming category and has been translated into Chinese and Korean, with distribution in more than 42 countries.

Erin is the founder of TimeBite, an AI-native product that bridges the physical and digital — embedding multimodal intelligence directly into how people interact with and move through the world.

Her work spans AI, spatial computing, and web3, and includes selection into leading technical and entrepreneurial fellowships across these domains, including the Amazon Web Services CTO Fellowship (2022), Gitcoin Kernel (2021), Alley (housed at Verizon Ventures in 2019), and Facebook/Meta’s AR VR/Oculus Launch Pad (2018).

Erin was a fellow in the deep learning program at the University of San Francisco Data Institute (2017–2018) and the inaugural Data Ethics cohort through fast.ai (2020). She earned her BA from University of California, Berkeley and is a Silicon Valley native, where early exposure to founders, technologists, and civic leadership shaped her perspective on innovation.

Outside of her professional work, Erin is a seasoned community organizer and advocate. She co-founded organizations including FASTER (Filipinx American in STEAM), which serves Filipinx Americans working in the tech industry, and ARVR Academy, which focuses on expanding access to emerging technologies for women and underrepresented communities. Additionally, she has served on the board of the Silicon Valley Ice Skating Association (SVISA).