Hi, I'm Cedric

About Me

I'm a Software Engineer specializing in real-time, distributed systems for financial platforms. I've led the design and ownership of high-throughput debit settlement and streaming architectures, building event-driven systems with strong correctness guarantees, operational resilience, and enterprise-scale impact. My work spans cloud-native backend systems, serverless platforms, global data infrastructure, and applied AI systems, including Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines backed by OpenSearch for semantic retrieval. I focus on translating complex business and regulatory requirements into reliable, production-grade software, enjoy mentoring engineers, setting technical direction, and building systems that perform under real-world constraints.

Skillsets

Cloud-native architectures

Distributed Systems & Real-Time Streaming

AI Systems & Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

Data Platforms & High-Availability Datastores

Reliability, Observability & Incident Response

Technical Leadership & Mentorship

Personal Projects

My current work and accomplishments

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Anki Opensearch Vector Database

Created a vector database using OpenSearch to store and retrieve Anki flashcards based on semantic similarity, enhancing study efficiency through AI-driven search capabilities for medical students.

AIVector DatabasesAWS OpenSearchAWS BlackrockRAGAWS Elastic Container ServicePythonDocker

AWS Serverless Cost-Saving Platform

During my tenure at a leading financial services company, I spearheaded the architecting and implementation of an off-hours processing platform that revolutionized our cloud cost saving capabilities, saving upwards of 60% on cloud resource running costs annually. By leveraging AWS serverless technologies such as Step Functions and Lambda, I designed a robust system that automated the shutdown and startup of non-production environments during off-peak hours.

AWSIAMServerlessStep FunctionsLambdaDynamoDB