I'm Erin Jerri. I build the systems AI walks into.
Engineer, author, and founder working across AI, spatial computing, and the interfaces
Lead author of O'Reilly's Creating Augmented and Virtual Realities the spatial computing reference written years before AI glasses made the category mainstream. Former CTO, and builder in AI and XR since 2015
Hi, I'm Erin
Software engineer, startup founder, and writer - born and raised in Silicon Valley.
Erin Jerri Malonzo Pañgilinan is a proud Silicon Valley native born and raised software engineer, startup founder, former CTO, author, and speaker working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, spatial computing, and emerging interfaces.
She is 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 new release in Amazon’s Game Programming category, has been translated into Chinese and Korean, is distributed in more than 42 countries, and became widely known within the XR community as the “VR Bible.”
Erin is the founder of TimeBite, an AI-native platform currently in beta on Apple platforms, that helps people better understand how they spend their time and align daily actions with long-term goals.
Her technical background includes selection into leading engineering and entrepreneurial programs, including the Amazon Web Services CTO Fellowship (2022), Gitcoin Kernel (2021), Verizon Ventures’ Alley program (2019), Meta’s Oculus Launch Pad (2018), the University of San Francisco Data Institute’s Deep Learning Fellowship (2017–2018), the inaugural Data Ethics program through fast.ai (2020), and Venture Forward through the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) and UC Berkeley Executive Law Program (2025).
Erin earned her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Early in her career, she spent more than seven years as a journalist and more than five years in civic engagement, including paid campaign staff for Obama for America (2012) and Ro Khanna for Congress (2014).
She co-founded two nonprofit organizations — FASTER (Filipinx Americans in STEAM), which supports Filipinx American professionals in tech, and ARVR Academy, which focused on increasing representation of women in immersive technology — and has served on the board of the Silicon Valley Ice Skating Association (SVISA)
Today, Erin builds AI-native products, advises founders on AI and spatial computing, and is developing new books, film, and television projects.
WHAT I WORK ON
I focus on what happens after the model - when AI has to operate inside products, workflows, and environments.
When AI has to operate inside products, workflows, and environments.
01
AI-Native Products
Systems that operate beyond chat - executing inside real products and workflows.
02
Spatial & Wearable Interfaces
AR, VR, MR, and AI glasses — the next room software has to behave in.
03
LongevityAI
AI applied to longevity, fitness, women's health, fertility, menopause, and neurodegenerative disease.
WORK WITH ME
I take a small number of engagements each year, in the places where the decision is expensive and the answer isn’t obvious yet.
Speaking
I create talks tailored to your events on all things AI and more.
Request a speaking engagement →Advisory
Focused paid sessions for teams already in motion, where the next product decision carries real consequences. I’ve been building in AI and spatial computing since 2015 as an engineer, founder, and CTO — the advice comes from having shipped it.
Schedule an advisory session →Keynotes, executive briefings, and technical talks.
Selected talks
Keynotes, executive briefings, and technical talks on AI, spatial computing, and interface shifts.
Federated Intelligence: Architectures for Collective AI
How AI can truly be for everyone.
How We See: A New Vision for XR and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Humanity
Embodied Time: Balancing the Real and the Digital in the Age of AI
Toward a Non-Toxic Quantified Self: Intentional Technology, Embodied Life
Rethinking Microinteractions: A Sustainable, Intentional Approach to Creation with AI
How to build efficiently and sustainably with AI — without having to token max to the extreme.
What I am building
TimeBite
Most tools are built around what you planned. TimeBite is built around what actually happened — how your days really unfold, so you can align them with what you said mattered.
Selected for programs and fellowships across AI, XR, and web3, including the AWS CTO Fellowship, Alley (Verizon Ventures), and Gitcoin Kernel.
Get the essays and the beta.
Read my Substack. New writing on AI, XR, and wearables — and how we are bridging the physical and digital reality.
