Benjamin Fredrickson
Co-Founder & CTO at PreScalar
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Fredrickson is a pragmatic engineering leader and founder with 12 years of experience building embedded systems, robotics, and tools infrastructure across medical devices and autonomous vehicles. As Co-Founder & CTO of PreScalar and former technical lead at Cruise, he specializes in unifying complex hardware-software workflows—bringing up system benches, data pipelines, and automated release/testing frameworks that accelerate integration. He has a track record of shipping safety-critical medical robotics and remote-operation platforms, including pioneering Python middleware and WebRTC interfaces for robotic control. Benjamin excels at turning ambiguous, cross-disciplinary problems into reproducible engineering processes and has repeatedly scaled teams from solo contributors to multi-person organizations. Based in San Francisco with dual training in mathematics and computer science from UC Berkeley, he blends rigorous analytic thinking with a hands-on ability to prototype from microcontrollers to cloud ETL. Notably, he combines deep low-level experience (kernel and embedded work) with product-focused infrastructure work, making him fluent across the full stack of physical-world software.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Mathematics, B.A., Mathematics at University of California, BerkeleyAA, Mathematics, Liberal Arts, AA, Mathematics, Liberal Arts at Lake Tahoe Community College SouthProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
frc971/971-Robot-Code
Feb 2014 - Mar 2019
Contributions:42 commits in 5 years 1 month
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