Noah Pederson

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Madison, WI
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Noah is an experienced, top performing technologist who has spent the last several years deeply integrated in R&D as an individual contributor and technical lead manager in deep tech and telecom.

Experience

Technologies / Skills

Rust, Python, Linux, Kubernetes, Docker, UNIX, networking, ZFS, distributed systems, project management, resource constrained systems, distributed computing, scientific computing, hardware integration

Tech. Lead/Software Engineer, ColdQuanta/Infleqtion Nov 2019 – current

Infleqtion (formerly ColdQuanta) is an industry leading quantum atomics company.

Lead geographically distributed team of software engineers responsible for real-time hardware control and programming, leading development processes
Design, prototype, and implement distributed semi-embedded control system for optical atomic clock using Rust and Python
Use specialized LLVM backed Python realtime programming system (Artiq) to create stable quantum program execution environment
Work closely with specialized physics team to provide tools for composing experiments that execute on bespoke hardware
Hired and handed off DevOps responsibilities to newly formed team
Review complex, multidisciplinary, performance and safety sensitive code
Lead technical-design reviews for existing software infrastructure, identifying weakness in architecture and high ROI potential improvement

Sr. Software Engineer, TDS Telecom Aug. 2016 – Nov. 2019

Regional Internet Service Provider and Telecom.

Design, develop, test, and maintain a range of internal full-stack applications
Automate the management and configuration of specialized network equipment
Prototype OpenShift/Kubernetes system architecture for use across company
Develop automation for complex network equipment graph management

Projects

Optical Atomic Clock Control System July 2023 - Current

Utilize Rust and various other tools to design, rapidly prototype, deploy, and test soft realtime control system using Python and Rust with extremely tight deadlines. Collaborate with electrical engineering team for embedded driver control and integration. Manage distributed state across networked nodes for servo control, monitoring, and analysis. Deliver on extremely tight deadlines with limited hardware testing capability.

QRF Control System December 2023 - Current

Sole systems engineer on the project. I work closely with the team of physicists and electrical engineers to provide high quality, performant, command and control, PID servos, and diagnostic tools for expert technicians to operate and diagnose QRF systems.