Lucian Cesca
Co-Founder at Universal Foundry
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLucian Cesca is an experienced software engineer and founder with 11 years building cloud-native infrastructure, developer tooling, and database extensions. He has led engineering teams and platform efforts at startups and tech companies including Hydra (YC W22), Argo AI, and Apple, and currently runs Squiggle LLC after co-founding Universal Foundry to simplify UE5 server tooling. His hands-on expertise spans large-scale Kubernetes orchestration, job/workflow systems, and low-level Postgres extension work—evidenced by contributions to a Postgres-native columnar storage project involving C and Go dependency management. Lucian combines systems-level rigor from his computational math background at Carnegie Mellon with product-focused execution as a founding engineer and head of engineering. He’s comfortable moving between DevOps, backend systems, and database internals, often taking on organizational refactors and performance-driven platform improvements. Based in Pittsburgh, he brings entrepreneurial grit and a track record of shipping complex infrastructure that frees teams to focus on core product development.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computational and Applied Mathematics, BS Computational and Applied Mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (11)
go10
postgresql10
postgresql-extension10
database9
c119
admin9
database-administration9
c179
databases9
docker4
dockers4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
hydradatabase/columnar
Sep 2022 - Dec 2022
Hydra: Column-oriented Postgres. Add scalable analytics to your project in minutes.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 54 commits, 4 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Lucian's commits primarily focus on the transition of a codebase from `hydrasco` to `hydrasdb`, indicating work on codebase structure and potential organizational refactoring. Further contributions involve modifications to the `go.mod` file, which suggests involvement with the Go programming language and dependency management. Also, the user is making changes in `columnar_customscan.c` file that is related to custom scan functionality in the Postgres database.
datawarehousepostgresql-extensionsqlolapsnowflake
ljcesca/dotfiles
Feb 2016 - Aug 2021
Contributions:70 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 7 months
vimtmuxtmux-configurationconfiguration-filesneovim
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