Summary
Cedric C is a pragmatic engineering leader with 11 years of experience scaling startups and a background as an AWS Solutions Architect, currently serving as Head of Engineering at CoinGecko where he grew the team from 7 to 33+ and delivered 99.95% uptime for consumer and enterprise APIs. He combines hands-on incident recovery and technical debt reduction with process and hiring reforms, bringing discipline to talent acquisition, SRE/QA functions, and OKR-driven roadmaps. His past roles include driving cloud migrations and $1M in startup revenue at AWS and steering engineering through multiple fundraises as Director of Engineering at Kaodim. Focused on big data and decentralization, he leads R&D initiatives that translate scalability research into production systems. Outside work he mentors developer communities and holds Malaysian Mensa membership, reflecting a blend of technical depth and community-minded mentorship.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B. Sc, BioMechanical Engineering, B. Sc, BioMechanical Engineering at Brown University
Korean, Malay, American Sign Language, English