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
New York, NY
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
New York, NY
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
New York, NY
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
New York, NY
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
New York, NY
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