Carter Pedersen
Software Engineer at Notion
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCarter Pedersen is a software engineer and founder with 10 years of experience building fault-tolerant, scalable systems and leading teams from prototype to production. He has driven availability from ~80% to 99.9% while scaling daily active users nearly 10x, and has hands-on expertise across backend services, data pipelines ingesting hundreds of millions of events, and mobile-to-cloud full-stack architecture. As a founding engineer at Sequin and former founder of Bloom, he blends product intuition with technical ownership—designing server-side systems in Python and user-facing iOS experiences in Swift. His early work includes flight and ground software for a CubeSat mission, giving him uncommon embedded systems and aerospace experience alongside cloud-scale analytics. Based in Los Angeles, he now applies this mix of startup grit and operational rigor at Notion, where he continues to focus on reliability, cost optimization, and actionable analytics.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
English
Github Skills (40)
elixir8
erlang8
postgresql7
plug7
umbrella6
encoding5
decoding5
java5
sql4
database4
data-mapping3
absinthe3
graphql3
caching3
json3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sequin-io/supavisor
Apr 2023 - May 2023
A cloud-native, multi-tenant Postgres connection pooler.
Contributions:4 reviews, 8 PRs, 38 pushes in 1 month
sequinstream/homebrew-sequin
Jul 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:75 pushes in 8 months
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