Ferdinand Cruz
Software Engineer at Nava
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFerdinand Cruz is a full-stack software engineer based in San Francisco with eight years of experience building accessible, performant web applications using TypeScript/React, Python, and Ruby on Rails. He has shipped core front-end infrastructure and multimedia features for education platforms at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, boosting front-end test coverage from ~10% to ~80% and cutting incidents by 90% while improving load times by 30%. Comfortable across databases (Postgres, GraphQL), deployment platforms (Heroku, AWS), and modern tooling (Playwright, Storybook, Datadog), he favors thoughtful front-end craftsmanship and WCAG compliance. He also brings teaching and mentorship experience from Make School and a psychology background that informs user-focused design and collaboration.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Psychology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Psychology at University of California, DavisBachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc at Make School
English, Tagalog, Japanese, Spanish
Github Skills (23)
single-page9
style-dictionary8
single-page-application7
react6
api4
mongodb3
music3
playlists3
authentication2
javascript2
rest-api2
aws-s32
vanilla-javascript2
authorization2
reddit2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sgalizia/SandPiper
Mar 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:92 commits, 12 PRs, 41 pushes in 1 month
apimusicplaylists
pomfy113/CS-Practice
Oct 2018 - Jul 2024
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
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