Erik Meijer (born 18 April 1963, Curaçao) is a Dutch computer scientist and entrepreneur.

From 2015 to 2024, he was a Senior Director of Engineering at Facebook (now Meta)[3] and subsequently stated, after leaving, that there is “no advantage to be inside a large corp if you want to build cool stuff on top of LLMS (Large Language Models).”[4] Meijer lived in the Netherlands Antilles until the age of 14 when his father retired from his job and the family moved back to the Netherlands.

[9] In 2011, Erik Meijer was appointed part-time professor of Cloud Programming within the Software Engineering Research Group at Delft University of Technology.

[12] On Christmas 2014, Erik Meijer was diagnosed with chronic myelogenous leukemia and suffered a close to death experience for which he was hospitalized.

[14] Since 2020, Meijer has been a member of the Steering Committee for the International Workshop on Cloud Intelligence / AIOps in conjunction with the ICSE, ASPLOS, MLSys, AAAI annual conferences.