David Cruz

Senior Software Engineer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Architected Next.js application in 3 months to then immediately authors 10 web pages
• Coordinated directly with business weekly to direct development, and polish story details
• Crafted and documented 11 AEM Headful and 16 Headless custom components
• Managed 8 offshore resources establishing governance for best coding practices
• Integrated Vue and 17 proprietary npm packages into a Headful AEM service
• Responsible for reviewing merge requests from 10 developers

• Fabricated 40 hours of Frontend stories from scratch with business prompts to outline the development path
• Delivered knowledge transfer weekly to 3 other engineers to assure best practices and standards
• Researched daily and aligned our team weekly with ADA and brand requirements to assure
• Lead the development of 2 frameworkless single page application implementing mapbox
• Performed 1 interview a month with soft skills and hard skills in mind including a code challenge to build my team

• Learned PHP and Laravel in 2 weeks, deploying an application 3 weeks later
• Spearheaded the companies first docker solution resulting in the companies first training portal
• Conceived then delivered 2 applications within 3 months with unfamiliar tools (Laravel, and Vue)

• Contracted with 6 other business owners to serve one another in a symbiotic relationship
• Met with 3 customers a day to educate, buy sell and process devices like iPhones, PlayStations, and laptops
• Researched, and developed processes to reduce overhead by 90% in some cases

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PROJECTS

Centerwell Marketing

Frontend Lead

Next, TS, GraphQL, NPM, Next.js, AEM

Architected the entire frontend approach to a marketing campaign
• Drafted technical approach to support authoring and developing of 16 components
• Applied agile workflow to deliver on 10 pages in 3 months to clinch the cancelation of an expensive contract
• Researched, and developed processes to reduce overhead by 90% in some cases

AEM Foundation

Full Stack Lead

Vue, JavaScript, AEM, Java, ADO, GraphQL, NPM, TS, Next.js, Webpack, GitHub

Lead a team of engineers to enhance and develop components in a headful AEM application for a year
• Owned POCs and Spike stories once a month to document, and establish standards
• Curated stories to lead 4 frontend engineers to pick up and develop during offshore hours
• Delivered production level code daily to resolve stories, and bugs to provide enhancements and features

Nucleus Liaison

Frontend Lead

Nucleus, Headless / Headful AEM 6.3, Content Fragments, lit, React, Typescript, Vue

Onboard new teams and team members to the nuances and documentation involving proprietary npm packages
• Integrated lit/react, and Nucleus form groups to allow for dynamic form system to be created
• Used future goals to help determine which path forward would server our stakeholders the best
• Detailed stories to align 3 engineers on 40 hours of story points every week for 6 months