Cedric Cogell

Pronunciation

"KED-rik KOH-guhl"

Email

cedric (at) cogell (dot) com
Head shot of Cedric Cogell

Software Career

Solutions Architect (Contract Work)

August 2023 - Current

    - Provided advice for pre-market fit engineering quality and speed

    - Assited migration of existing Nuxt Supabase app to NextJS and TypeScript

Senior Software Engineer - 4yrs

2019-2023

    - Increased performance and accessibility of website while adding ability run tests, and provided a modern developer experience with MUI, TypeScript, and NextJS

    - Increased shipping frequency from 2-3 months to every 2 weeks via working with Product to educate, prioritize and scope work.

    - Brought overseas apps in-house rebuilding the iOS and Andoid in React-Native, TypeScript, Swift, and Kotlin

    - Improved design collaboration by introducing and teaching Figma along with concept of a design system

Solutions Architect (Contract Work)

March 2020

    - Rapidly decentralized COVID help hotline and data warehouse with no downtime during the first weeks of the pandemic

    - Implemented soft phone system and no-code data solutions and soft that could be maintained by county employees and retraining call operators to use new systems

Senior Software Engineer - 6yrs

2013-2019

    - Introduced and ushered in React to improve our frontend application development experience and reduce code complexity

    - Introduced and ushered in TypeScript to improve our frontend application development experience, reduce unit tests, and increase confidence in our code

    - Promoted 4 times from Engineering Fellow to Senior Engineer and Team Lead of Native Apps (iOS and Android)

    - Shipped code in 6 languages: JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Scala, Objective-C, Java

    - Created and ran Software Book Club for 4yrs which continued as I left

    - Worked on every tech stack we had: HuffPost Live (Daily Internet Show), HuffPost Contributor (Public CMS), HuffPost CMS (Internal CMS), HuffPost.com (Public Site), Native Apps (iOS and Android)

Higher Education

Columbia University

B.S. Mechanical Engineering

Graduated 2012

    - Facilitated and produced fundraising materials, website, interviews as Public Relations Chair for Engineers Without Borders

    - Created mission, constitution, and programming as President of Columbia Bhakti Club

    - Mentored 20 middle school students weekly at Hunter College for Logo Robotics Team, Fall 2010

Bard College

B.A. Mathematics

Graduated 2010

    - Tutored dozens of students in Calculus I - III

    - Conducted original research in geometric group theory by exploring the way heat diffuses in n-dimensional space via Python, Senior Thesis, 2009-2010

    - Invited to University of Nebraska-Lincoln to research system control, Summer 2009