Summary
Cam Pedersen is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 14 years building full-stack systems, embedded IoT frameworks, and autonomous vehicle tooling. He has led engineering teams and startups—from director roles at Vanilla to CTO at DitchCarbon—and now runs Municipal Robotics, focusing on autonomous public works vehicles. Deep technical breadth spans JavaScript/React/Redux, GraphQL, Node, Ruby, Go, PHP and systems like PostgreSQL and Redis, plus hands-on hardware work demonstrated by his Arduino framework for Node.js. He excels at taking ambiguous problems to production-ready architectures, having rebuilt large-scale APIs, orchestrated microservices, and improved firmware stability through server-side designs. Cam pairs pragmatic engineering with product intuition, often shipping tooling and processes that unlock manufacturing or scale in operations. He also brings a curious, maker mindset—equally comfortable in zsh and vim as in designing distributed backend systems.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of North Dakota
English, French, Spanish