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 is working on gaining the experience necessary in order to qualify to take their Web Accessibility Specialist (WAS) certification as well.
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.
Cameron is also the current Vice President of Nice Moves MN, a volunteer-run organization that hosts events, mixers, and more for animation, motion graphics, VFX, and other moving picture professionals in Minnesota and its surrounding neighbors.
You can find all of his socials at cdmacdonald.com
Presenting Sessions
Participating Sessions
- Advanced Fiddler Techniques
- Cryptography 101
- Growing up “Vid Kid”
- EarPilot: flying an airplane by ear
- My year with cancer: A tech retrospective
- Horror Movie Survival: Protecting Yourself From Airborne Pathogens
- Choose Your Own Adventure: Pros and Cons of a Formal Autism / ADHD diagnosis vs Self-Diagnosis
- Building a Smart Door Bell and e-ink Home Dashboard
- Identity and Personhood Credentials in the 21st century
- "Luddite" Is A Compliment
- LED The Way: From Plug-and-Play to Hacking with WLED
- The Rise of the Creative Technologist: Why Artists and Creatives Will Shape the Future of AI
- Networking. No, the other kind.
- Cataloging A Movie And Music Library
- Cutting The Cord: The Future Is Living on The Edge
- Detecting RAAC in Building Structures using SEM (Semiconductor) and/or Tuning Fork - MEMS Vibration (Physics Sound) based Sensor Solution
- 🎼 How To Direct a Software Team When You Have No Idea What They’re Talking About
- Testing Products for Accessibility: Why Manual and Automated Testing Go Hand-in-Hand 👨🦽➡️👩🦯➡️🤖🤝
- How to Automate your Home and not Lose your Family
- Mastering Event Deduplication in Real-Time Architectures
- Saying sayonara to AWS: Leave the cloud. Run hardware. Save $10 million.
- Atari 2600: From Chip Design to Combat - An Engineer's Journey
- Expertise vs Automation: the Choice that Makes You
- Exploring the Question “What Is It We Understand We Are Testing For?”
- So, You Wanna Do a Side Project?
- 💎 DevTool Diamonds: Power Features You Didn’t Know Existed
- Networking Room
- MN Indie Gamedev Microtalks, 2025
- Startup 2.0: AI Agents Meet 'The Sims'
- If No One Remembers You, Do You Even Exist? The REPEAT Framework for Making Your Message Stick
- Building A Tricorder
- Accessibility: Adding "Why" to the "How"
- 3D Printing: How to Get Started
- Assistive Tech Is for Everyone (They Just Don’t Know It Yet 😏)
- How to (Privately!) Surf the Internet
- Back to the <Future />: A Brief History of Web Development
- Radical Sabbatical - How I structured one year of creative web-dev
- Managing Your IT Career v16 – (Why do recruiters suck so bad?)
- You already know (most) of what you need to know about cybersecurity!
- 🐝 Honeybees: Click to Save
- UX Office Hours
- Negotiating your compensation
- So, you want to be a consultant?
- Open Source Technology and The Future of Civic Tech
- How to Newsletter: Lessons from 300 issues of the Weekly Thing