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Cedric Ancellin - Professional Competency Record (Section Overview)

Profile

Headline: Founding CTO and principal platform architect who designs and builds production-grade, multi-tenant commerce platforms end to end: API engine, data warehouse, payments, integrations, security, frontends, and the AI/knowledge tooling around them.

Operating Model: Every system recorded here was personally designed by Cedric. Delivery was either direct implementation or architecture plus technical supervision of an engineer executing to his design and review. The distinction does not change ownership of the design, the decisions, or the outcome.

Scale Signals

Backend: ~42,000 PHP files; ~41,500 function/class declarations.

Business Logic: ~5,600-file shared business-logic library across ~113 domain modules.

API Surface: Multi-version REST API (v1 / v2 / v4) across 15+ functional domains, plus GraphQL, an OAuth-provider surface, and an MCP surface.

Frontend: Angular/TypeScript operator SPA plus a family of embeddable JS widgets.

Data: Polyglot persistence, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, Firebase, Snowflake.

Payments: 13+ payment integrations, cards, crypto, wallets, gift cards, room-charge, house credit.

Reporting: 200+ report types across 80+ modules with a scheduled export engine.

Integrations: Dozens of third-party vendors, reservation, POS, PMS, payment, identity, messaging, marketing, dev-tooling, guest-engagement.

Applied AI: A self-hosted, fine-tuned LLM behind a streaming API, plus NLU and a conversational assistant.

Knowledge Base: ~2,400-file machine-readable YAML knowledge base with a from-scratch MCP server.

Track Record Relevance: This is the concrete evidence base behind Cedric's track record. The hardest problems in hospitality technology, unifying two platforms, converging payments and compliance, building a shared data warehouse and analytics, hardening for enterprise, and layering AI on a unified foundation, map almost one-to-one onto competencies he has already delivered end to end (see payments_engineering, integrations_etl, data_engineering_warehouse, security_engineering, applied_ai_llm, ai_knowledge_engineering, and systems_architecture below).

Competencies

Systems Architecture

Scope: Single front-controller request engine, multi-environment routing, multi-tenancy, statelessness + cache tier.

Backend Platform Engineering

Scope: Large PHP monolith design, custom database abstraction, ID/encoding schemes, soft-delete + audit patterns.

Commerce Inventory Engine

Scope: Date-partitioned inventory, tier-yielded pricing, multi-layer breakdown engine, holds + publishing pipeline.

Payments Engineering

Scope: Multi-gateway checkout, Stripe Connect + Elements, refund engine, comps/cash, cart + fulfillment; 13+ integrations.

Integrations Etl

Scope: Two-way sync, raw ingest + normalization pipelines, high-watermark CDC, POS and reservation vendors.

Data Engineering Warehouse

Scope: Snowflake galaxy schema, dbt semantic layer, multi-tenant gated shares, CDC ETL, data-quality governance.

Security Engineering

Scope: Request firewall, defense-in-depth uploads, secrets management, pentest remediation, controls registry.

Frontend Widget Engineering

Scope: Embeddable widget + proxy pattern, Angular SPA, XSRF rotation, real-time socket systems.

Identity Authentication

Scope: Multi-key-type auth, session lifecycle, OAuth/SAML/SSO federation, RBAC + PII gating.

Reliability Operations

Scope: Incident command, root-cause analysis, data remediation at scale, error/alerting pipelines, environments.

AI Knowledge Engineering

Scope: Documentation-as-code knowledge base, MCP server, AI-assisted development workflow + guardrails.

Technical Leadership

Scope: Architecture ownership, standards + conventions, code review, mentorship, delivery supervision.

Reporting Analytics Reconciliation

Scope: 200+ report types, POS + processor + GL reconciliation, scheduled multi-recipient export engine.

Regulatory Fiscal Compliance

Scope: Government fiscal e-invoicing, multi-rate tax, digital consent/waivers, audit/change-tracking.

Ticketing Loyalty Access

Scope: Ticketing engine, cross-property loyalty/membership, Apple Wallet passes, encrypted-QR access control + scanning.

Applied AI Llm

Scope: Self-hosted fine-tuned LLM behind a streaming API, conversational assistant, NLU-driven chat.

Realtime Notifications

Scope: Live socket broadcasting, real-time audience-request system, multi-channel notification/trigger platform.

Project Resource Management

Scope: PSA / project management, task plans, time tracking, skill catalog, resource cost rates, cost accounting.

Modern Fullstack Product

Scope: A separate current-stack product, Next.js App Router, React, TypeScript, NextAuth/Google OAuth, Jira integration.

AI Orchestrated Delivery

Scope: Directing AI coding agents to build + operate production apps as product owner/architect, with an engineered governance oracle.

Distributed Service Segregation

Scope: Multi-repo distributed platform (NestJS + Next.js) with frontend/backend and auth/session segregation (two-token model).

Engineering Management Financial Stewardship

Scope: Leading a product team; owning the delivery process; capitalizing engineering time against CapEx in management reporting.

Knowledge Architecture Curation

Scope: A domain-agnostic knowledge-architecture methodology (structured YAML, rules layer, MCP serving), generalized into transferable IP.

Oracle AI Applications

Scope: What the Oracle methodology is FOR: AI applications built on it, AI-first/assisted dev, code review & impact analysis, trusted analytics, agent governance & multi-agent orchestration, documentation, and operations.

Tech Stack

Purpose: Fast index of languages, datastores, vendors, and tools across the record.

Implicit

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