Ferdinand Cruz
Software Engineer at Nava
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFerdinand Cruz is a full-stack software engineer based in San Francisco with eight years of experience building accessible, performant web applications using TypeScript/React, Python, and Ruby on Rails. He has shipped core front-end infrastructure and multimedia features for education platforms at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, boosting front-end test coverage from ~10% to ~80% and cutting incidents by 90% while improving load times by 30%. Comfortable across databases (Postgres, GraphQL), deployment platforms (Heroku, AWS), and modern tooling (Playwright, Storybook, Datadog), he favors thoughtful front-end craftsmanship and WCAG compliance. He also brings teaching and mentorship experience from Make School and a psychology background that informs user-focused design and collaboration.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Psychology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Psychology at University of California, DavisBachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc at Make School
English, Tagalog, Japanese, Spanish
Github Skills (16)
style-dictionary9
single-page8
react7
single-page-application5
playlists5
music4
api4
server-side2
mongodb2
internet2
reddit2
outlook-calendar1
javascript1
outlook1
nodejs1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sgalizia/SandPiper
Mar 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:92 commits, 12 PRs, 41 pushes in 1 month
apimusicplaylists
pomfy113/CS-Practice
Oct 2018 - Jul 2024
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
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