Cea Stapleton Cordasco

Engineering Leadership · Security & Identity · Infrastructure

Cea Stapleton Cordasco leads Identity Infrastructure at Block. Her team builds and operates the identity systems Block's platform runs on, including PKI, service-to-service authorization, access control, edge security and emergency access. The team blends software and infrastructure engineering and keeps security, reliability, and continuous innovation in balance.

An engineer with more than two decades of experience, she blends people management and technical leadership. At Block and Heroku she has built engineering teams from the ground up, sometimes from a single person to a full organization in a matter of months. She has successfully led innovative six-person teams and 22-person organizations across rapid hiring, reductions in force, and all kinds of organizational change. She brings the same deliberate attention to team composition and health that she brings to system design. She firmly believes that centering team culture and psychological safety is the unlock for high performing engineering organizations.