Summary
Luis Cruz is a Head of Data & ML and seasoned technology leader based in Mexico City with 11+ years delivering cloud-native, data-driven products that ship. He has repeatedly scaled small teams into high-performing engineering organizations, building core platforms (CRM, ERP, customer portals) and slashing infrastructure costs through architecture and automation across AWS and GCP. His background spans hands-on data engineering, AI-driven development processes, and SaaS delivery—he’s taken projects from legacy refactors to end-to-end CI/CD with measurable outcomes like 80% infrastructure cost reductions and delivery time cut from weeks to days. Comfortable as a fractional CTO and solutions architect, he blends Python and Node.js development with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi) to operationalize data governance and real-time pipelines for regulated fintech and PropTech environments. A pragmatic problem-solver, he’s known for reconstructing lost databases and designing resilient systems that survive spikes and team shrinkage while continuously improving product velocity.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
Spanish, English