Cecil Urena
Principal Software Engineer at Contrast Security
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCecil Urena is a Principal Software Engineer based in Austin with 11 years of hands-on experience building scalable, maintainable, and fault-tolerant systems across AWS, web, and mobile platforms. He has progressed through senior and staff roles to principal engineering at Contrast Security, bringing strong full-stack chops and a track record of shipping production-grade services. His background spans fintech, SaaS, and instrumentation-heavy products, and he routinely drives architecture, refactoring, and observability efforts to improve reliability and developer velocity. Cecil pairs practical engineering with mentorship—leading code reviews and architectural sessions while promoting test-driven, observable systems. He holds an MS in Management Information Systems and began his career in revenue management systems, giving him a practical grounding in enterprise-grade data and transactional software. Colleagues would note his knack for turning messy legacy code into resilient, well-instrumented platforms.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Programming Languages, Operating Systems, Programing Logic, Compilers, Calculus, Physics, Computer Science, Programming Languages, Operating Systems, Programing Logic, Compilers, Calculus, Physics at Universidad Adventista de las AntillasMS, Management Information Systems, MS, Management Information Systems at University of Houston-Clear Lake
English, Spanish
Github Skills (36)
spring10
graph10
spring-mvc10
terraform10
infrastructure-as-code9
springframework9
spring-data-jpa8
spring-boot8
java7
performance-testing7
rspec7
bash7
linux7
docker-container7
hibernate-types7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
curena/wrdrb
Oct 2015 - Jul 2026
Contributions:5 pushes, 6 issues in 10 years 10 months
curena/takeaction
Mar 2019 - Feb 2020
TakeAction Alexa Skill in progress
Contributions:4 PRs, 12 pushes, 4 branches in 11 months
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