Cezar Cocu
Staff Software Engineer at Hapiko
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolCezar Cocu is a Staff Software Engineer in New York with 12 years of experience building backend systems, applied AI/ML, and distributed architectures across startups and large tech companies. He has shipped foundational products from 0-to-1—spanning plagiarism detection and Google Meet features at Google, the first Peloton iPhone app, and LLM-powered creator tools as a founding engineer at Whisper. As a founder/CTO he combined consumer hardware and voice agents for geriatrics, and now focuses on consumer hardware at Hapiko, blending embedded constraints with scalable cloud services. His background as an Army infantryman and early field technician gives him a pragmatic, mission-oriented approach to problem solving and reliability. Comfortable across the full stack, he excels at turning research into production-quality systems and mentoring teams through complex technical transitions. He brings a rare mix of startup grit, large-scale product experience, and applied ML curiosity that accelerates product delivery.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Binghamton University
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Github Skills (31)
predict10
retrieval10
ios9
natural-language-processing9
macos9
swift9
nlp9
bert8
speech8
objective-c8
java7
signal7
xcode7
cocoapods7
kotlin7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cezarc1/LoadingImageView
Jan 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:1 release, 24 commits, 1 PR in 5 months
uiimageviewswiftiosloading-indicator
cezarc1/dspy
Feb 2025 - Mar 2025
DSPy: The framework for programming—not prompting—language models
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 15 days
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