Our Team - The humans behind the code
Small, senior, and stubbornly effective. Every member of our team has been battle-tested in production — no junior devs cutting their teeth on your dime.
Technical Staff
Suzie
Founder
RubyTechnical Project ManagementAgile DeliverySuzie founded Cedar Labs on a simple premise: small teams deserve the same caliber of software that enterprises take for granted. With over a decade of experience managing complex technical projects ranging from Ruby fullstack apps to 9-figure research facility new builds at universities, she ensures every engagement stays on track and delivers real results.
Andrew
Founder & Member of Technical Staff
KotlinPlatform EngineeringAgentic AIOpen SourceAndrew co-founded Cedar Labs after nearly eight years at Block, where he was the top contributor to Misk – the company's open-source Kotlin cloud microservices framework — used by over 2,000 applications to power the backends for Cash App and Square. A Linux Foundation certified open-source developer for enterprise and Canada's Business Model Competition winner, he now focuses on bringing Fortune 500-grade engineering to the understaffed upstarts who need it most.
Adam
Forward Deployed Engineer, AI Enablement
AI EnablementMarketingAccountingOperationsAdam embeds with our small business customers as a forward deployed engineer, working closely with them to understand existing business workflows, and helping them integrate AI to drastically improve their marketing, accounting, and operations performance. He has successfully driven improved revenues, margin growth, and operational efficiency leveraging the latest AI tools across industries ranging from niche Instagram viral ecommerce clothing brands to luxury airport limos and local mechanic shops.
Luke
Applied AI Engineer
Model Fine-TuningML PipelinesData EngineeringLuke specializes in taking foundation models and making them work for specific, real-world tasks. From fine-tuning LLMs to building the data pipelines that feed them, he bridges the gap between cutting-edge research and production-ready AI.
Igor
Fullstack Engineer
JavaScriptPythonGoRustIgor is the kind of engineer who can build anything — and has. Whether it is a reactive frontend in JavaScript, a high-throughput backend in Go, or systems-level tooling in Rust, he picks the right tool for the job and ships code that does not need rewriting six months later.
Maya
Product Designer
Product DesignDesign SystemsInterfaceMaya designs the parts of a product people actually touch. She has shipped design systems other teams kept, and she treats a screen as a decision, not a decoration.
Kenji
Engineering Manager
Engineering ManagementDeliveryHiringKenji has run engineering teams that shipped without a layer of process between the work and the person who owned it. He hires for judgment, and he still reads the code when the schedule depends on it.
Hannah
Tech Lead
Technical DirectionReviewsDeliveryHannah is the person a team asks when the design and the implementation disagree. She sets the direction, keeps reviews about the work, and still ships the hard part herself.
Rafael
Platform Engineer
PlatformReliabilityToolingRafael builds the platform the product team stops thinking about. Deploys, permissions, and the path from a change to production are his, and they stay boring on purpose.
Amira
Mobile Engineer
iOSAndroidProductAmira ships mobile products people open every day. She has taken apps from a first release to the version that had to survive a bad network and a worse review.
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Your SkillsYour ExpertiseWe are always looking for proven operators who care about craft. If you have been battle-tested in production and want to work with a team that values substance over ceremony, we would love to hear from you.
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