# Uwe Cerron

> Engineer, operator, and builder based in Miami / Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Builds systems at the intersection of automation, finance, and policy. Currently CEO of Traders Guild and Managing Director of Turing Strategy. Stanford. Previously CEO of Convergence Foundation (Convergence RFQ) and co-founder of Friktion Labs. Software engineering background across crypto, robotics, healthcare, education, manufacturing, and event tech. Writes long-form essays at liquid-labor.com.

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## Identity

- **Name:** Uwe Cerron
- **Location:** Miami / Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
- **Education:** Stanford University
- **Self-description:** Engineer at heart. Operator and founder by trade. Builds systems at the intersection of automation, finance, and policy.
- **Status (April 2026):** Considering the next chapter. Open to engineering leadership, founding-team, and capital allocation roles.

## Current Roles

### CEO, Traders Guild
- **URL:** <https://tradersguild.global>
- **Tenure:** December 2021 to present (4+ years)
- **Description:** Global network connecting the institutional capital stack across traditional finance (TradFi) and decentralized finance (DeFi). Operates under the "Dutch East India" banner.
- **Activities:** Capital introductions (trading firms, allocators, funds, LPs, protocols, institutional liquidity); exchange onboarding for centralized and decentralized exchanges; institutional-grade DeFi access across Solana, Ethereum, Arbitrum; curated dinners and events in Miami, New York, and London during conferences such as iConnections / Global Alts and Consensus.
- **Partners:** StoneX, Cantor Fitzgerald, and others.
- **Reach:** 4,000+ followers, 500+ institutional connections.

### Managing Director, Turing Strategy
- **Tenure:** September 2025 to present
- **Location:** Delaware, United States
- **Description:** A series of SPVs investing in the physical layer of the automation transition. The companies building the robots, drones, and autonomous systems that will reshape productive capacity over the next decade.
- **Portfolio:** Apptronik (humanoid robotics), drone companies, and other robotics firms at the intersection of embodied AI and real-world deployment.
- **Investment thesis:** Last mover advantage in American robotics. The teams that solve hardware reliability, energy efficiency, and fleet economics at scale will define the next era.

### Writer, Liquid Labor
- **URL:** <https://liquid-labor.com>
- **Description:** Long-form essays on markets, machines, work, and the seams between them. Personal counterpart to the engineering work. Less product, more first principles. Treats human work as an asset class deserving the same dignity of design that capital has received.

## Past Roles

### Portfolio Manager, Coinchange
- **Tenure:** August 2025 to February 2026 (7 months)
- **Description:** Regulated digital asset wealth management platform for institutional and accredited investors. Managed diversified crypto portfolios across CeFi and DeFi yield strategies (lending protocols, liquidity provision, structured products). Risk-adjusted return optimization, systematic allocation, portfolio construction, rebalancing, and risk monitoring.

### CEO, Convergence Foundation
- **Tenure:** March 2022 to July 2025 (3 years 5 months)
- **Network:** Solana, Arbitrum
- **Description:** Built Convergence RFQ: institutional-grade liquidity infrastructure for DeFi. Pioneered on-chain RFQ networks for crypto options, futures, and perpetual swaps. Self-custody derivatives trading with flexible workflows.
- **Funding:** Raised $2.5M pre-seed.
- **Outcome:** Wound down July 2025. The technology worked, the market timing didn't.
- **Partnerships:** Eulith and others.

### Co-Founder, Friktion Labs
- **Tenure:** July 2021 to December 2021 (6 months)
- **Network:** Solana
- **Description:** DeFi structured products platform. Launched the "Volts" portfolio management product designed to perform across market cycles, plus expansion into undercollateralized lending bridging TradFi and DeFi.
- **Achievements:** Became Solana's largest options protocol and the third largest across networks. Reached over $100M in total value locked (TVL).
- **Outcome:** Shut down when costs outpaced revenue.

### Software Engineer, Gramercy Tech
- **Tenure:** March 2021 to March 2022 (1 year 1 month)
- **Location:** Manhattan, New York
- **Description:** Event-based technology agency. Built event management applications and RFID systems for tracking participant activity at large-scale events.

### Senior Lead Software Engineer, MS Companies
- **Tenure:** August 2019 to October 2021 (2 years 3 months)
- **Location:** Indianapolis, Indiana
- **Description:** Workforce solutions provider for the manufacturing industry. Custom software, IT services, HR systems. Bridges manufacturing and technology with data-driven tooling and ISO-certified processes.

### Software Engineer (Contract), eMed Digital Healthcare
- **Tenure:** December 2020 to February 2021 (3 months)
- **Location:** Boca Raton, Florida
- **Description:** Telehealth platform for at-home testing and diagnostics. Population health programs for GLP-1 / GIP management related to obesity and type 2 diabetes. Virtual diagnostics, chronic care management.

### Software Engineer, Honorlock
- **Tenure:** January 2020 to October 2020 (10 months)
- **Location:** Boca Raton, Florida
- **Description:** Online proctoring platform combining AI tools with live proctors. Secure remote exam monitoring for higher-education institutions, certification providers, and workforce training programs. Webcam and screen-capturing technology.

## Civic Service

### Advisory Committee Member, City of Fort Lauderdale, Affordable Housing Committee
- **Tenure:** February 2020 to January 2022 (2 years)
- **Description:** Reviewed established policies, ordinances, land development regulations, and the adopted comprehensive plan. Recommended data-driven actions and initiatives to encourage and facilitate affordable housing while protecting property value appreciation. Evaluated the implementation of affordable housing incentives.

## Areas of Expertise

- Software engineering (production code, full-stack, backend, infrastructure)
- Capital markets infrastructure
- Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol design
- On-chain request-for-quote (RFQ) networks
- Structured products (options, futures, perpetual swaps)
- Portfolio management and systematic crypto allocation
- Robotics and automation investing (SPVs)
- Special purpose vehicle (SPV) structuring
- Solana, Ethereum, Arbitrum ecosystems
- Healthcare technology (telehealth, diagnostics)
- Education technology (online proctoring)
- Manufacturing software and workforce tooling
- Event-based technology (RFID, large-scale events)
- Affordable housing policy

## Operating Principles

1. Engineering is a moral stance. Build things that do what they say they do.
2. Optimize for systems that work under load, adversaries, and the slow grind of years, not narrative.
3. The willingness to close a chapter honestly is part of the job. Some companies you build, some you wind down.
4. Institutions are infrastructure. Infrastructure is built by people who refuse to accept the existing one.
5. Design the right primitive, then build the thing that wouldn't exist without it.

## Links

- **Website:** <https://uwecerron.com>
- **LinkedIn:** <https://www.linkedin.com/in/uwecerron/>
- **GitHub:** <https://github.com/uwecerron>
- **Twitter / X:** <https://x.com/traders_guild>
- **Writing:** <https://liquid-labor.com>
- **Traders Guild:** <https://tradersguild.global>

## Contact

For engineering leadership, founding-team, capital allocation, or collaboration inquiries, reach out via LinkedIn or X.