Ivan Cruz
Product Designer at Science
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolIvan Cruz is a multidisciplinary product designer and director with 11 years of experience crafting interactive products, animation, and front-end solutions for clients ranging from Microsoft and Warner Bros to Wikipedia and Sony. He combines hands-on visual design and prototyping with team leadership—most recently leading product design at Datadog before joining Science—thriving in fast-moving, iterative environments. His background spans 2D/3D animation, motion design, and UX for AR/VR and digital media, giving him a rare blend of cinematic storytelling and pragmatic product instincts. Known for turning ambitious creative briefs into measurable outcomes (for example, major campaign lift early in his career), he mentors teams to balance polish with rapid experimentation. Based in Auckland, he brings studio-caliber craft to product challenges while still shipping front-end implementations himself.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Digital Design Diploma, Digital Design, Digital Design Diploma, Digital Design at Vancouver Film School
Spanish, English
Github Skills (74)
testing10
webpack10
wikipedia9
javascript9
angular9
html9
react-native9
web-components9
vite9
react9
typescript9
vue9
svelte9
documentation9
datepicker8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
anni-platform/anni-platform
Sep 2016 - Oct 2018
An open source project management platform for animators.
Contributions:155 commits, 39 PRs, 196 pushes in 2 years 1 month
project-managementanimationopen-source-project
shiftsave/anni-dot-io
Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
reactanni
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