Cedric Hurst
Founder & CEO at Spantree LLC, a Trifork Company
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolCedric Hurst is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 14+ years of experience building pragmatic, user-focused systems and leading a boutique consulting firm, Spantree Technology Group, out of Chicago’s West Loop. He blends hands-on development across Java, Groovy, JavaScript and NoSQL technologies with architecture, legacy modernization and developer enablement for clients across North America. Known for introducing practical open-source solutions—Solr, Elasticsearch, Neo4J—and CI/CD practices into enterprise environments, he’s comfortable patching source, working with committers, and shipping both mature and bleeding-edge tools. Cedric pairs technical depth with entrepreneurial instincts, hiring and mentoring teams, conducting technical interviews, and creating reusable tooling (e.g., a Grails-Geronimo plugin and CI integrations). An early coder since 1997, he brings a mix of system-level curiosity and a people-first leadership style that helps organizations adopt better decision-making tools and developer workflows.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Information and Decision Sciences, Bachelor of Science, Information and Decision Sciences at University of Illinois Chicago
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Github Skills (197)
elasticsearch10
docker-compose10
search-engine10
java10
docker-image10
restful10
javascript9
golang9
angular9
cli9
monorepo9
opensearch9
graphql-modules9
sugarcrm9
extensible9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Spantree/elasticsearch-talk
Jan 2013 - Jan 2017
Contributions:409 commits, 3 PRs, 99 pushes in 4 years 1 month
divideby0/spotfire
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:44 commits, 37 pushes, 2 branches in 27 days
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