Clint Frederickson is a senior technical leader and hands-on engineer with 10+ years delivering Rust-based distributed systems, observability platforms, and spaceflight software that have gone from research prototypes to flight-qualified hardware. He has led teams and product lines end-to-end—owning architecture, roadmaps, and customer integration—for mesh networking and Kubernetes-backed compute systems, including software that supported a device deployed to the International Space Station. His roots in applied cryptography at IronCore inform a pragmatic focus on testability, long-lived operability, and secure system design across flight, lab, and ground environments. Clint pairs strategic product judgment with deep implementation experience (drivers, Yocto builds, K3s, OpenTelemetry), and has a track record of building lightweight processes and repeatable six-week release cadences. He mentors senior engineers and shapes engineering culture while remaining ready to dive into code when it matters. Based in Helena, Montana, he also contributes to open-source Rust drivers and brings an uncommon blend of spaceflight rigor and production-grade distributed-systems practice.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at Montana State University-Bozeman
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Clint Frederickson - Senior Staff Software Engineer at SoFi