Summary
Jared De La Cruz is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building cloud-native systems and developer-focused tooling from the Bay Area. He blends hands-on engineering at NVIDIA with a history of leading cloud service modernization, containerization, and CI/security improvements at companies like Appcelerator and his own startup, Yodlr. Comfortable across the stack, Jared has ported Node.js services to Rust, built streaming analytics UIs, and automated on-prem and cloud deployments. He’s passionate about open source software and hardware, and has published tooling and APIs while creating integration test suites and Ansible bootstraps. Beyond code, Jared pairs a formal software engineering degree with a BA in Philosophy, bringing a pragmatic yet thoughtful approach to design and collaboration. Colleagues would describe him as an operator who enjoys taking projects from design through production and simplifying the developer experience.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
San José State University
B.S., Software Engineering, B.S., Software Engineering at Cogswell Polytechnical College
Spanish, English