Nicolas Cerveaux
Ex-Thrive Market, Ex-Dave, Engineering Leader | 15+ Yrs in E-Commerce, FinTech & SaaS | Expert in Scalable Platforms, TypeScript, Cloud, & Team Building
- Role
- Principal Engineer at Moonchild
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Nicolas Cerveaux
Engineering Leader with 15+ years of experience delivering high-impact, scalable software solutions across DTC E-Commerce, FinTech, and SaaS industries. Proven success building and leading cross-functional engineering teams, driving architectural decisions, and accelerating product delivery at scale.Adept at navigating the full software development lifecycle—from hands-on coding to strategic planning—with deep expertise in cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and modern front-end/back-end frameworks.Notable leadership roles: • Director of Engineering at Groundswell (Re-platformed core stack from Golang to TypeScript) • VP of Engineering at AllVoices (Built Agile org + passed SOC 2 audits) • Staff Engineer at Dave (Scaled platform to 2M+ users) • Sr. Director at Thrive Market (Led 30+ engineers, migrated stack to React, integrated warehouses)Technical Competencies:PHP, JavaScript (React, NextJS, Node.js), TypeScript, HTML5, CSS, jQuery, Python, Go, GroovyCloud: AWS, GCP, AzureInfrastructure: Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions, CI/CDData/Infra: Hadoop, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Graphite, Memcached, RedisWeb: Apache, Nginx, RESTful APIs, Varnish
Experience
Principal Engineer
Aug 2025 — Present · Seattle, WA, US
Built a Chrome extension to import live websites- Finished the Figma import feature- Engineered infrastructure for dynamic preview environments per branch, supporting fast iteration and internal QA- Led prompt optimization efforts for LLM-based tools to improve context intent- Added support for public sharing of user-generated outputs with secure access control- Integrated Redis to accelerate internal API performance and reduce LLM response latency- Implemented full observability stack with Sentry and logging pipelines- Rolled out DMARC, DKIM, SPF and bootstrapped outbound email marketing infrastructure- Hardened ElectricSQL infrastructure, improving sync stability between Postgres and local clients- Shipped secure CI/CD workflows with Docker + GitHub Actions deploying to GCP (Cloud Run, Artifact Registry)
Education
SUPINFO
European Master, Computer Science
2006 — 2009
Campus de Bissy
BTS, Informatique de gestion
2005 — 2006
Dominican University of California
Master's degree, Business
2008 — 2009
Skills
- Php
- Mysql
- Memcached
- Apache
- Nginx
- Mongodb
- Hadoop
- Uml
- Javascript
- Html
- Html 5
- Node.js
- Zend Framework
- Zend Studio
- Zend Server
- Magento
- Wordpress
- Oscommerce
- Drupal
- Joomla
- Facebook Api
- Twitter Api
- Oop
- Agile Methodologies
- Scrum
- Ajax
- Jquery
- Jquery Mobile
- Jquery UI
- Prototype.js
- .net
- Java
- Varnish
- Amazon Ec2
- Css
- Design Patterns
- Ubuntu
- Centos
- Redhat
- Redis
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