Cédric Cabessa
Technical Lead at Ledger
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolCédric Cabessa is a Staff Software Engineer based in Paris with 16 years of experience building low-level operating systems, cloud infrastructure, and large-scale blockchain backends. At Ledger he has moved from hands-on backend and performance work to leading operational excellence—focusing on automation, refactoring, and reducing technical debt while driving cross-functional collaboration. He blends deep technical chops (Python, Celery, SQL tuning, QEMU, Android/AOSP, embedded Linux) with strong code-review and architecture stewardship across small teams. An open-source contributor and former Android maintainer for projects like AntennaPod, he brings practical mobile and systems experience to cloud and crypto products. Notably, he pairs microservice and real-time notification design with pragmatic performance profiling to scale SaaS for high-value customers. Colleagues rely on him to translate product goals into robust, observable systems without sacrificing developer velocity.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Network and System Administration, Engineer's degree, Network and System Administration at l'ISIMA Clermont-Ferrand
English, French
Github Skills (4)
java10
javas10
android10
user-interface9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
AntennaPod/AntennaPod
Jan 2017 - Mar 2019
A podcast manager for Android
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 13 comments in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Cédric contributed to the Antennapod Android application by implementing features and improving the user experience. Their work included handling headset disconnect scenarios during casting, adding rewind/fast forward buttons for Android Wear devices, and integrating a time conversion class with playback speed preferences. They also focused on improving the media player and widget functionality by utilizing the new time conversion features.
appspodcastpodcast-managerandroidpodcasting20
CedricCabessa/dotfiles
Jan 2014 - Oct 2022
Contributions:78 commits, 51 pushes in 8 years 10 months
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