Cedric Williams
Software Engineer at Lead
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCedric Williams is a seasoned software engineer with 10+ years of experience building reliable, customer-focused systems from fintech to public-sector platforms, now based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has led architecture and platform initiatives—modernizing monoliths, unifying authentication under OAuth, and containerizing critical money-movement services—to cut deploy times and reduce support load. At Earnin he drove measurable outcomes like a 10% drop in support requests and slashed build/deploy windows from hours to minutes while introducing canary deployments and GitHub Actions CI/CD. A pragmatic technologist and mentor, he champions developer productivity and inner-source practices, having built tools and programs at PayPal that scaled knowledge sharing across large organizations. Trained originally in natural resources and later in computer science, he brings a systems-thinking perspective that blends technical rigor with a constant focus on improving real user outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Certificate Program Computer Science, Graduate Certificate Program Computer Science at Texas State UniversityBS Natural Resources, BS Natural Resources at Cornell University
Github Skills (18)
firefox-addon10
chrome-extension10
browser-extension9
quest9
commons9
accessibility9
reader9
methodology9
firefox8
darkmode8
chrome8
markdown8
pypi5
open-source5
data-mining5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cewilliams/InnerSourceCommons
Oct 2015 - Apr 2019
Contributions:107 pushes in 3 years 5 months
cewilliams/IgniteTraining
Oct 2016 - May 2023
Contributions:2 pushes in 6 years 8 months
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