Cedrick Lunven

Cedrick Lunven is the co‑founder and Chief Technology Officer of GoodBards, an AI‑powered marketing co‑pilot that helps mid‑sized companies design, run and optimise campaigns end‑to‑end.​ As CTO, he heads the AI & API engineering group, steering product vision, distributed‑system architecture and developer‑experience strategy.​

# Early Career & Technical Roots

A passionate Java engineer for more than two decades, Cedrick began his career building mission‑critical distributed systems and quickly became known for pragmatic, developer‑first tooling.​ In 2013 he authored FF4J (Feature Flipping for Java), today one of the most widely‑adopted open‑source feature‑flag frameworks in the JVM ecosystem.​ FF4J’s modular design and plug‑in storage model have influenced countless micro‑service and cloud‑native deployments worldwide.​

# Leadership at DataStax & Distributed‑System Expertise

Before founding GoodBards, Cedrick led Developer Relations and later the AI tooling group at DataStax, the company behind Apache Cassandra™, where he produced SDKs, CLIs and reference architectures to make globally‑distributed databases accessible to Java and cloud‑native developers.​ His hands‑on knowledge of replication, eventual consistency and high‑throughput APIs underpins the low‑latency, multi‑tenant backbone that powers GoodBards today.​
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# Community, Open Source & Thought Leadership

Cedrick remains an active OSS contributor and mentor, maintaining FF4J while submitting fixes and extensions to numerous Java, Cassandra and Kubernetes projects.​ He shares insights through conference talks and workshops; recent appearances include Devoxx Belgium 2024 and SCALE 20x in Los Angeles.​

# Speaking & Publications

A regular at API Days, Voxxed Days and JUG meet‑ups, Cedrick speaks about feature‑flag strategy, generative‑AI pipelines and “real‑world” API ergonomics. His articles on feature toggling, Cassandra data modelling and AI session management appear in outlets such as e27, DEV Community and corporate engineering blogs.​

# Personal Notes

Known for his animated teaching style and analogies—he likens multi‑agent orchestration to “shifting gears in a gearbox”—Cedrick balances deep technical rigour with approachability.​ Outside of code, he is an avid Magic: The Gathering player and occasional tabletop game designer.​

Whether scaling AI workloads, refining API contracts or mentoring the next generation of developers, Cedrick’s mantra remains constant: “Powerful software should stay simple for those who build with it.”