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Jefry Cruz

Cary,NC

Summary

10 Years Experienced full-stack software engineer leader with a proven track record of success in managing and leading software engineers. Actively contributes to the development of production-grade code and excels in guiding critical technical discussions. Collaborates seamlessly with cross-functional teams to drive product advancement.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Engineering Manager

Resilia
01.2021 - Current
  • Tech stack: Node.js, React, GraphQL, Appollo server, Segment, Sentry, Postgress, AWS, Heroku, Cypress, Claude Ai, Auth0
  • Led cross-functional teams for successful product development, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to specifications.
  • Started as a IC (Senior SE) and was promoted two times (up till ENG Manager)
  • Lead and introduced Resilia's first use case of generative Ai (Claude)
  • Designed and developed a notification system using an event driven pattern
  • Managed a team of up to 4 software engineers and implemented a development plan for each individual's career that was focused on growth
  • Promoted two engineers, one to SE2 and another to Senior SE
  • Was a key person in the hiring process of new engineers, Product managers and, UX Designers
  • Onboarded engineers and product managers
  • Maintained a tight collaboration channel with cross functional teams such as sales, marketing, data and security as it related to many of our product releases

Director Of Technology

Epicured
01.2018 - 01.2021
  • Tech Stack: Laravel, Vue.js, Mysql, Datadog, Digital Ocean, Forge, Sentry, Jenkins
  • Promoted from Senior Software Engineer
  • Served as primary decision-maker for internal technology spending, creating budget guidelines to reduce waste and decrease unnecessary upgrades.
  • Executed on senior leadership's long-term and mid-term technology development goals.
  • Managed all hiring for the engineering department
  • Managed 4 internal and 3 offshore engineers.
  • Implemented code guidelines and code review principles
  • Implemented an alternative deployment process: Increased deployment time from hours to minutes with an increase in deployment confidence
  • Designed and created the core API for the primary store
  • Architected and led a new in-house admin system to handle customer management and operational reports for the kitchen
  • Architected and led a meal suggestion engine: This increased AOV by 13%
  • Converted ecommerce store from a monolithic architecture to a microservices architecture
  • Led the nationwide expansion from an architectural and technology standpoint
  • Migrated the company's core database from a singular database to a database network architecture: This increased our core API performance by almost 50% and impacted the client side with increased page speeds by up to 40%
  • Assigned team wide KPI goals on a quarterly basis for the technology team based on feature delivery confidence
  • Created technology product roadmaps highlighting opportunities and risks depending on initiatives
  • Implemented caching, compression and deferred loading techniques to increase site speed: This increased the conversation rate by .7%
  • Made data driven decisions using platforms such as, Google Analytics, Hotjar and Google Optimize to increase website conversion by 1.3%
  • Implemented the bug monitoring tool Sentry to track critical level production errors

CTO

Vibelyst .Inc
01.2016 - 01.2018
  • Tech Stack: Laravel, React, Postgres, AWS, Forge, Stripe, Mailgun, Pusher
  • Prompted From Lead Engineer
  • Designed a two way marketplace
  • Create and maintain an Api
  • Implemented Stripe connect to support c2c instant payments for users
  • Manged all hiring for the R&D team
  • Used Pusher to enable real time notifications on the desktop application
  • Setup and manage the project progress using Trello
  • Lead all scrum ceremonies with the R&D team
  • Manged 3 engineers & 1 UX Designer

Web Engineer

Haymarket Media Group
01.2015 - 01.2016
  • Maintained websites that are viewed by hundreds of thousands of visitors per day
  • Made crucial decisions while keeping ad viewability in mind
  • Worked in an agile environment which included daily scrum, 2 week sprints and sprint retros
  • Was part of a 4 person dedicated team that developed a lead management system in which my role was to write scripts to the database and consume the data using Vue.js to present it to the view
  • Code reviewed colleagues' work
  • Used git to maintain over 20 projects and an in house CMS
  • Dealt with MYSQL databases and Mongo DB
  • Won an award for being part of a team who developed the best application within the company
  • This award was out of the entire global company

Web Engineer

Ironpaper
01.2013 - 01.2014
  • Information Architecture
  • Developed, debugged and maintained websites in Wordpress, Custom PHP CMS, Hubspost CMS, Angular J.S, and Laravel (PHP Framework)
  • Implemented Restful API's into dynamic web applications
  • Wordpress theme development
  • Mentored and trained junior developers
  • Interacted with clients both small and enterprise level
  • Handled projects independently and in mid size groups using GIT for version control
  • At times Handled multiple projects with tight deadlines
  • Refactored and constantly tried to increase efficiency both in the front end and back end of applications
  • Created an in house project management system using Laravel for the company
  • Assisted in hiring new developers
  • Introduced Git into the company's development process

Skills

  • Python, PHP, Typescript, Nodejs, JS
  • React, Vuejs, Laravel
  • Mysql, Postgres, Mongo, Redis
  • OOP
  • Generative Ai, Claude
  • Software design
  • Agile
  • Strategic planning

Projects

  • https://opensmith.io/
  • https://formcoast.com/
  • http://ribbbon.com/

Accomplishments

  • Started as Lead Engineer & was promoted to Principal Engineer
  • Was promoted to CTO
  • Won an award for being part of a team who developed the best application within the company. This award was out of the entire global company

References

Available upon request.

Timeline

Engineering Manager

Resilia
01.2021 - Current

Director Of Technology

Epicured
01.2018 - 01.2021

CTO

Vibelyst .Inc
01.2016 - 01.2018

Web Engineer

Haymarket Media Group
01.2015 - 01.2016

Web Engineer

Ironpaper
01.2013 - 01.2014

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