Sergio Cruz Full Stack Application Developer

Hello I'm Sergio, nice to meet you!

Thanks for dropping by! I am a software developer who enjoys building meaningful products. I especially love creating beautiful user interfaces that have a real impact to the end-user.

Feel free to contact me at any time with questions:
E. hello [at] sergiocruz.me
P. (407) six-nine-four 8175

Work Experience

Code SchoolApril 2015 - Present

  • Create and maintain Single Page Applications
  • Integrate apps with enterprise systems (domain-driven design)
  • Gather requirements from content team and implement courses
  • Writes unit tests in JavaScript to test answers
  • Writes and presents courses

GotChosen.com July 2014 - April 2015

  • Developed large-scale JavaScript application using AngularJS
  • Assisted API Team to come up with good RESTful standards
  • Integrated application with proprietary RESTful API

TravelClick February 2014 - July 2014 (Contract)

  • Comfortable in a team environment
  • Created User Interfaces from strict requirements with Yeoman, AngularJS and Semantic UI
  • Hybrid phone applications using Ionic Framework
  • Extended existing proprietary PHP framework to support Restful APIs
  • Unit tested PHP and JavaScript code

GIVTED November 2012 - February 2014

  • Full stack developer, primarily used Zend Framework & AngularJS
  • Managed A/B and user research tests in order to optimize UI/UX, resulting in increased conversions
  • Managed design contests involving more than 30 designers at a time.
  • Implemented new workflow processes including GruntJS, SASS
  • Responsive design slicing with strict cross browser compatibility requirements (>IE8)

RGI Marketing November 2011 – November 2012

  • Assisted with point-based ecommerce websites and phone apps (~30,000 active daily users)
  • Created inventory system that sent orders to our warehouse to optmize fullfiment time
  • Technologies included: Codeigniter, RESTful APIs, and the Android SDK

eReady Websites July 2010 – November 2011

  • Developed websites using ModX, Drupal and Wordpress
  • Developed marketing system that generated thousands of leads using multiple top-level domain names to generate thousands of websites with many different themes, uncountable numbers of pages; which were based on synonym spun articles, geo-location, etc. This SEO system was built with the LAMP Stack, serving dynamic top-level domain names. We also experimented with many different forms of caching including APC, MongoDB, Redis, Memcached, and even flat files
  • Built CRM system that enabled the sales team to manage the leads that were captured from the SEO system, with features such as e-mail auto-responders, call back and events alerts, lead-capturing reports, graphs, etc.

Blue Palm Hotel May 2009 – July 2010

The Blue Palm Hotel used to be a Travelodge franchise, however they decided to try things on their own because of the many limitations they had when working with the franchise. I was hired to manage their technology stack.

  • Developed a web-based reservation system that worked in 4 different languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese and French
  • The reservation system included an administration panel that enabled hotel administrators to tweak room prices as needed throughout the year
  • They were also able to manage the reservations that came in, and to generate reports to control what marketing campaigns worked best
  • The whole package was built using PHP and MySQL as the backend engine, and (x)HTML, CSS and Javascript on the frontend

Self Employed December 2007 – May 2009

Assisted many businesses around the Central Florida area by developing websites and web-apps, designing flyers, posters and business cards, managing Windows networks and repairing computers and laptops. Software used: Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Fireworks, Illustrator, Dreamweaver and Flash), Corel Draw, NuSphere PhpED.

Brazilian National Biodiesel Magazine July 2006 – December 2007

  • Responsible the magazine’s complete web presence by developing and maintaining their website, ecommerce store, e-mail newsletters and SEO.
  • Website included a custom CMS that enabled magazine writers to post articles directly into the website. CMS, ecommerce store, and newsletter manager were all built from the ground up using PHP and MySQL.

Technical Skills

Languages & DBs

JavaScript
PHP
Java
MySQL
MongoDB
HTML5
CSS 3

Frameworks & Platforms

NodeJS
AngularJS
React
SailsJS
Laravel
Grunt
CodeIgniter
SASS / LESS

Development Software

OS X
Ubuntu
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Fireworks
Sublime Text
Atom
Vim