Erik Staab

Software engineer in San Francisco. Hacking on personal projects across home labs, game dev, language learning, and agent security.

Work

• Google · Senior Staff Software Engineer 2006 – 2026Various developer tools and infra teams and roles. Agentic coding tools; CI, build, and test systems; test and release automation in Chrome and Ads.

Publications

• Automated weed control in organic row crops using hyperspectral species identification and thermal micro-dosing 2012 Yun Zhang, Erik S. Staab, David C. Slaughter, D. Ken Giles, Daniel Downey. Crop Protection 41, 96–105.
• Robust hyperspectral vision-based classification for multi-season weed mapping 2012 Yun Zhang, David C. Slaughter, Erik S. Staab. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 69, 65–73.