Microsoft: Outstanding Technical Achievement, 2007; Outstanding Technical Leadership, 2009 Erik Meijer (born 18 April 1963, Curaçao) is a Dutch computer scientist, entrepreneur, and tie-dye enthusiast.[1] From 2000 to early 2013 he was a software architect for Microsoft where he headed the Cloud Programmability Team.[2] He then founded Applied Duality Inc.[3] in 2013. Before that, he was an associ