Jude Cruz is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building user-facing products across web and mobile, currently focused on Expo/React Native at Merit. He thrives in collaborative product teams, shipping features end-to-end and balancing pragmatic trade-offs to deliver measurable value to end users. Jude is a true generalist with a background spanning frontend, backend, DevOps, and native iOS/Android work—he’s implemented everything from offline video playback and encrypted messaging to nightly CI builds and observability stacks. A cum laude Computer Science graduate based in South San Francisco, he’s passionate about mentoring junior engineers and growing into team leadership while still enjoying the craft of coding. Notably, he helped bring multiple mobile apps from prototype to open beta and built internal tooling that materially improved developer productivity.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, 3.56, BS, Computer Science, 3.56 at San Francisco State University
Contributions:1 release, 18 reviews, 33 commits in 1 month
react-native-appreact-nativetypescript
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