Michael Cruz
CTO And Co-Founder at Protégé
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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SeniorMichael Cruz is a seasoned technology leader and co-founder serving as CTO of Protégé, where he focuses on helping creators be heard and discovered. With 14 years of experience, he has led engineering and product efforts across industries—from digitizing capital markets at CMG and enabling assisted commerce at Trunk Club to improving patient safety at SwipeSense and scaling educational products at Discovery Education. He pairs hands-on coding with strategic leadership, hiring people smarter than himself and cultivating teams that lift one another. Michael emphasizes a pure product vision and laser focus to turn complex problems into impactful, user-centered solutions. Based in Chicago, he advises startups on fundraising, team-building, and exits, blending operational rigor with an entrepreneur’s appetite for risk. An operator who still enjoys being close to the code, he builds environments designed to accelerate both product and people growth.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (30)
sdk6
swift5
crash5
cocoa5
error-handler5
ios4
sentry4
tvos4
macos4
watchos4
syntax-highlighting4
crash-reports3
vscode3
objective-c3
vscode-extension3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tuckrally/topcounter
Jan 2012 - Jan 2013
Contributions:27 commits in 1 year
growlbeer/growler_ios
Jan 2017 - Aug 2023
iOS client for Growler
Contributions:2 PRs, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 8 months
swiftiosgrowlerios-client
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