Paul Cruz
Software Engineer at Meta
Cedar Park, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Cruz is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building backend and infrastructure systems at top tech firms including Meta, Google, Microsoft, and Stripe. A Duke-trained ECE/CS major, he has shipped production features spanning payment integrations (SWIFT), SAP tooling, network infra (FBOSS), and collaboration services at scale, and has been an on-call owner for several high-visibility systems. He codes across C/C++, Java, Python and React, and brings practical open-source experience — contributing to Facebook’s Zstandard CLI to surface compressed-file metadata and optimize compression tradeoffs. Based in Cedar Park, Texas, Paul combines deep algorithmic instincts (computer vision/AI interests) with product-focused engineering, mentoring interns and teaching peers how to adopt new internal tools.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Electrical/Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Electrical/Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Duke UniversityHigh School, High School at Harmony School of Advancement
English
Github Skills (18)
compression-algorithm10
command-line-interface10
zstandard10
c1110
c1710
automation10
fileio10
file-handling10
file-processing10
automations10
file-access10
devops10
hhvm9
wget9
cmake9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/zstd
Jun 2017 - Aug 2017
Zstandard - Fast real-time compression algorithm
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:320 commits, 12 PRs, 19 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Paul's contributions focused on adding and improving functionality related to listing information about compressed files. The changes involved modifying the command-line interface program to include a new `-l` flag, allowing users to print information about Zstandard compressed files. The user also implemented code for the new functionality, including file detection, compressed size display, and parsing of file headers to extract relevant information. The implemented changes also included adding bounds for compression level changes, showing the level, and the time elapsed.
deflatezstandardbzip2compressionzstd
paulcruz74/Resume
Sep 2017 - Feb 2022
Latex files for resume
Contributions:2 PRs, 15 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 6 months
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