Cameron MacDonald
Bio
Cameron is a front-end developer who works on design systems. He finds joy in bridging the gap between visual design and software engineering; artistic creativity and practical problem solving.
He is also a Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies (CPACC) through the International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP). He hopes to earn WAS and CPWA certifications in the future.
When he's not ripping his hair out trying to fix bugs he definitely didn't create, you can find him doing one of his many hobbies that he can't seem to stop picking up. These include skiing, cycling, illustration, animation, 3D printing, smart home automation, playing guitar and piano, and more.
You can find all of his socials at cdmacdonald.com
If you're a reader, add him on The StoryGraph and recommend a book that he can put on his TBR and immediately forget about.
Presenting Sessions
Past Presentations
Participating Sessions
- Capture the Flag
- Multiplayer Interactive Fiction on the Elixir VM
- Writing the Video Game Narrative
- The Future of Energy and the 30X Problem
- Building A Profitable Independent Newsletter
- 📡🕸️ Preppers & Comrades Unite: Building a Decentralized Mesh Network for Resilient Communication
- MN Indie Gamedev Microtalks 2026
- When Disability Is Misread: Safety in High-Stress Systems
- Build a Business that Isn't Soul Sucking
- The Good Years: Formative Tech Companies in the Twin Cities
- What the fuck are passkeys and why are they everywhere now?
- Shipping Atoms and Bits: What Building Physical Products Taught Me About Better Engineering Decisions
- Don’t Blame the User—Fix the Design: The UX of Streets and Cities
- Gopher Supercomputing: Past, Present, and Future
- Early Stage Funding in Minnesota
- Mega Minne Multi Indie Mini Arcade
- 3D Printing: Getting Started
- Owning your engineering career progression and some advice from Tom Hanks
- Code, cloth, and your hands: How engaging in textile craft makes you a better technologist
- I'm Disabled & You Will Be, Too
- Sol LeWitt, Combinatorial Enumeration, and Rogue
- Cannabis! Building a cultivation, R&D, manufacturing and dispensary business in the Twin Cities.
- Photogrammetry to Furniture - Designing for the real world in Blender
- ✨ Let’s animate! ✨ An Introduction to Rive.app
- (Cybersecurity) Warnings 😳
- A weather station, plant monitors, buttons, and other smart home fun
- Real World Speech Interfaces: What Builders Are Seeing
- More... "Diagrams to Get your $hit together"
- Build A Bridge with Interactive Art
- Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained: Defeating the Loneliness Epidemic!
- 3D Printing: One step closer to the home replicator?
- Only Amiga Makes It Possible: Discovering the Future in a Computer from 1985
- What the Heck is a Qubit?
- Architecting Your Life OS: Applying Scaling Frameworks to Personal Growth
- 50 Years of Consoles, Computers, and Handhelds: The Convergence of the Steam Deck
- Growing Up "Vid Kid"
- From CAD to Injection-Molded Parts in 12 Hours
- How we bootstrapped our podcast studio in six months to profitiablity.
- Play Well With Others: Creativity Through Collaboration
- 🔥😌 Calm in the Chaos: Real-World Incident Management (and the Stuff We Don’t Talk About)
- The UX of Being Human: A Usability Assessment of You
- Don’t Train the User: Designing Behavior Systems for Chaotic Environments
- Catan, Clean Energy, and Code: Can You Prove That Wind Farm Actually Generated Electricity?
- What tech lessons should we learn from the ICE invasion?
- Mouth to MIDI in 11 Milliseconds: A Live Beatbox Drum Engine I Built on Nights and Weekends
- Why is tech sexist? A farming perspective
- Join our quest to throw a ring into a volcano
- Editing Photos On Your Phone with No Apps
- The Part You Didn't See: A Collective Account of Operation Metro Surge