Summary
David Cruz is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 11+ years building scalable, enterprise-grade systems and a recent focus on applied health tech. He created TallyFlex, a HIPAA-compliant, cross-platform data collection and reporting app that translates real ABA and special-education workflows into fast, session-ready tools used by clinics and school districts nationwide. Prior to founding TallyFlex he brought Principal and Senior engineering rigor to cloud-native platforms at Oracle and led complex Kubernetes migrations and service-mesh, CI/CD, and API gateway initiatives at Kaplan. David blends hands-on product empathy—driven by direct practitioner feedback—with deep systems engineering experience, enabling analytics that surface what’s actually changing instead of drowning teams in spreadsheets. Based in Florida with a Computer Science background from the University of Havana, he’s equally comfortable designing scalable backend infrastructure and iterating features that staff can learn in a day. An evident pattern in his work is taking high-scale engineering discipline into domains that have historically lacked practical, user-centered tooling.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BCS, Computer Science, BCS, Computer Science at University of Havana
English, Spanish