Summary
Eric Victorson is a principal technical program manager and seasoned roboticist with 11 years of experience building autonomy, control, and sensing systems across startups and aerospace research. He blends hands-on expertise in nonlinear control, estimation (EKF), computer vision, and embedded systems with program-level leadership—driving safety engineering, cross-functional milestone delivery, and team scaling at companies like Outrider and Atom Computing. His background spans end-to-end robotics work from sensor driver development and optical design to ROS-based planning stacks, CI/CD for embedded fleets, and large-scale ML data collection programs. Unusually, he pairs deep technical rigor with formal business training (MBA) and a strong focus on psychological safety and organizational design to accelerate innovation. Outside work he applies his engineering mindset to powerlifting, motorcycle racing, biomechanics teaching, and building custom autonomous robots, often documenting projects on his site numerickly.com.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, B.S. Mechanical Engineering at St. Cloud State University
M.S. Mechanical Engineering Minor: Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, M.S. Mechanical Engineering Minor: Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics at University of Minnesota
Self-driving car nanodegree, Self-driving car nanodegree at Udacity
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business
English, Spanish