Louis Cruz
Senior Lead Software Engineer at Self Employed Web and Software Developer
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolLouis Cruz is a Senior Lead Software Engineer based in Portland, Oregon with 11 years of experience building full-stack systems and leading engineering teams at Klaviyo and Zendesk. He combines hands-on development—spanning Python, Ruby, Rails, and modern front-end frameworks like Angular and React—with leadership in delivering scalable e-commerce and enterprise features. A longtime freelance developer, Louis has a habit of tackling diverse projects from native utilities to complex CRUD-heavy web apps, which makes him comfortable bridging product needs and technical tradeoffs. His background in advanced music composition and years teaching at Juilliard and App Academy give him a rare mix of disciplined creativity, pedagogy, and mentorship. Colleagues value his ability to translate ambiguous requirements into pragmatic engineering plans and to elevate team craft while still shipping code.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
European American Musical AllianceMaster's degree Music Composition, Master's degree Music Composition at The Juilliard SchoolBachelor's degree Music Composition, Bachelor's degree Music Composition at San Francisco Conservatory of MusicApp Academy
Stackoverflow
15reputation
3kreached
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4questions
Github Skills (200)
testing10
low-level10
mvc10
modals10
ruby10
e2e10
declarative10
floating10
linting10
esbuild-plugin10
javascript10
browser10
vue-testing-library10
react-testing-library10
datepicker10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
louisscruz/system-design
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:18 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
louisscruz/hub-crawl
Feb 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:65 commits, 4 PRs, 56 pushes in 5 months
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