Cruz Molina
Senior Software Engineer Crypto & Onchain at Kraken Digital Asset Exchange
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCruz Molina is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in crypto and on-chain systems with eight years of experience building production blockchain tooling and protocols. Currently at Kraken, he has previously held senior and leadership roles across startups and enterprises including Insrt Labs, Disney, and Truffle Suite, blending hands-on engineering with product-minded technical leadership. Cruz has contributed to high-profile open-source projects like web3.js and Truffle, focusing on TypeScript typings, backend refactors, and robust testing that improved developer ergonomics and reliability. He pairs deep smart-contract and Solidity expertise with full-stack engineering experience, shipping integrations and developer tools that scale. Trained in cultural anthropology, he brings a human-centered, interdisciplinary approach to designing collaborative developer experiences. Known for wearing many hats, he gravitates toward problems that require both technical depth and cross-functional coordination.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa CruzHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Don Bosco Technical Institute
Github Skills (18)
javascript10
solidity10
testing10
typescript10
moc10
mochajs10
web3js10
ethereum10
typescript-types10
truffle10
typescripts10
application-framework9
app-framework9
api9
web-framework9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
trufflesuite/truffle
Sep 2018 - Aug 2020
:warning: The Truffle Suite is being sunset. For information on ongoing support, migration options and FAQs, visit the Consensys blog. Thank you for all the support over the years.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 releases, 1989 commits, 630 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Cruz made several contributions to the Truffle Box project, primarily focused on enhancing the unboxing and initialization process. Their work included implementing overwrite checks and prompts, replacing global variables, and refactoring file system operations, demonstrating a focus on code maintenance and refactoring. They also added more test cases and test logic to ensure the force flags & prompt were working as expected, indicating a good understanding of testing practices.
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web3/web3.js
Dec 2018 - Nov 2019
Collection of comprehensive TypeScript libraries for Interaction with the Ethereum JSON RPC API and utility functions.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 4 PRs, 4 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Cruz primarily contributed to the `web3.js` library by adding and modifying TypeScript definitions, interfaces, and constructors related to providers, JSON RPC responses, and the Web3 constructor. They focused on improving type safety and the overall structure of the library. The user's work included adjusting existing code, introducing new types, and improving the interface for handling asynchronous operations within the library. These changes were critical to the project's use of TypeScript.
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