Adam Cadien
Director Of Software Engineering at Blue River Technology
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Cadien is a Member of Technical Staff in San Francisco with 14 years of experience leading software and research teams that bridge physics, robotics, and AI to build societally valuable products. He has guided engineering organizations from research at Apple and CERN to production autonomy at Cruise, FarmWise, and Blue River Technology—where his teams cut farm chemical waste by 67% and deployed solutions used across continents. Adam combines deep academic training (PhD in condensed matter physics) and hands-on systems engineering—FPGA data pipelines, automated calibration for perception stacks, and applied ML for interatomic force descriptors. He focuses on creating productive workplaces and turning complex physical problems into robust, deployable software, currently tackling physics+AI challenges at Vinci4D.ai. Notably, his early work applied evolutionary and sampling algorithms to materials problems and helped operationalize compute for landmark experimental detectors.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Physics & Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Physics & Computer Science at The University of British ColumbiaDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Condensed Matter Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Condensed Matter Physics at George Mason University
Stackoverflow
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ubuntu
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Github Skills (13)
ubuntu9
cmath6
curve-fitting6
scipy6
interpolation6
wing-ide6
python6
matplotlib6
splines6
javascript4
react4
visualization3
data-visualization2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
acadien/matcalc
Mar 2012 - May 2015
Contributions:400 commits, 24 pushes in 3 years 2 months
acadien/acadien.github.io
Jan 2025 - Jan 2025
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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