Diego Cruz
Software Engineer at Apple
Lima, Lima, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDiego Cruz is a seasoned iOS software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building production-quality features at Apple after leading mobile teams and shipping high-impact apps. He specializes in Auto Layout, custom UIKit components, multithreading, and writing highly readable code, and has repeatedly taken projects from definition to App Store release, including an app honored as App Store Best of Year. Diego pairs product-minded design collaboration with pragmatic architecture changes that accelerated release cycles and improved performance on older devices, directly growing user bases. His background spans startups to enterprise (Visa, Sodimac) and includes a Master’s from NYU in Interactive Telecommunications, reflecting a blend of UX sensitivity and technical depth. Notably, he has converted complex business processes into automated AI-assisted workflows earlier in his career, showing a knack for practical automation beyond mobile development.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Pontificia Universidad Católica del PerúMaster's Degree, Interactive Telecommunications, MPS, Master's Degree, Interactive Telecommunications, MPS at New York University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (20)
horizontal-scrolling10
headers10
jekyll10
jekyll-theme10
layout9
scrolling9
floating9
uicollectionview9
uicollectionviewlayout9
keyboard-layout9
keyboard8
rise8
emoji8
swift7
ios6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cruzdiego/PannablePickerView
Dec 2015 - Feb 2018
Contributions:2 releases, 11 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 1 month
timelyreacttimelyappandroidrise
cruzdiego/HorizontalFloatingHeaderLayout
Jan 2016 - Feb 2018
Floating headers with horizontal scrolling layout for UICollectionView, inspired by iOS native Emoji Keyboard layout
Contributions:2 releases, 12 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 1 month
emoji-keyboardemojifloatingscrollinguicollectionviewlayout
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