Cedric Amaya is a user-focused full stack engineer and Customer Success Engineer based in Denver with roughly a decade of hands-on experience delivering scalable web applications and developer tools. He blends a non-traditional background in retail, customer service, and manual QA with strong engineering chops, which informs his emphasis on intuitive, high-impact user experiences. As a founding engineer at Sagepost and a full stack contributor at companies like Hellosaurus and connectRN, he has driven measurable performance gains—such as a 15x file storage speedup and a 90% reduction in load times—and saved costs through thoughtful tooling. Cedric is an active front-end open-source contributor, improving UX on notable projects like Firefox Notes and Zulip Desktop by adding features such as dark theme, link analytics, and cross-platform keyboard shortcuts. He’s passionate about blending creativity and logic, mentoring others, and shipping reliable, well-documented systems that bridge product and engineering needs.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's, Computer Science, Bachelor's, Computer Science at BloomTech
Bachelor's, Political Science, Bachelor's, Political Science at Arizona State University
Associate of Science - AS, Computer Science, Associate of Science - AS, Computer Science at Foothill College
Contributions:63 commits, 40 PRs, 1 push in 9 months
Contributions summary:Cedric primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and user experience of the Firefox Notes application. Their contributions include adding a close button and tooltips to the toolbar, improving the visual appearance of elements, and adding support for links, including clickable links and link-clicked analytics. The user also addressed various styling and layout issues, and implemented a dark theme, demonstrating a strong focus on improving the application's usability and visual appeal.
Contributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 22 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Cedric's primary contribution involved implementing and enhancing keyboard shortcuts within the Zulip desktop application's settings page. They created a `ShortcutsSection` class, developed the UI for displaying shortcuts, and integrated the functionality. The user also styled the shortcuts using CSS and incorporated the correct OS keys for different operating systems. Furthermore, they added a link to external documentation and modified the settings page for the create organization button.
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Cedric Amaya - Customer Success Engineer at Pathify