Software Developer
Gabriel Cruz
Software Developer with over 4 years of experience designing, developing, and deploying scalable full-stack applications. Shipped enterprise-scale software across HR/payroll, telecommunications, and higher education organizations, owning projects from requirements through deployment, and driving operational efficiency through automation that saves organizations thousands of hours annually.
Skills
Technologies and tools I work with
Languages
Frameworks & Libraries
Databases & Caching
Cloud & DevOps
Practices
Experience
My professional journey
Software Developer IV, III, II
Paycom
Grapevine, Texas
- Led development of 5 automation initiatives using event-driven microservices, workflow engines, and REST API integrations, partnering with HR stakeholders to eliminate an estimated 1,000+ hours of manual work per year.
- Designed and built a notification scheduling dashboard utilizing Kafka-backed delivery pipeline with a React and TypeScript frontend, handling 100,000+ emails monthly and reducing email coordination time by 80%.
- Developed a configurable form-templating system using containerized microservices with Docker and Kubernetes, standardizing onboarding across 5 countries and reducing setup time by 60%.
- Implemented GitLab CI/CD pipelines to automate unit testing and deployment, cutting release time from 2 hours to 20 minutes.
- Optimized high-traffic data endpoints by rewriting SQL joins, adding indexes and Couchbase caching, reducing p95 read latency by 50%.
Application Developer
University of Houston
Houston, Texas
- Delivered full-stack web applications used daily by 47,000+ students and faculty to register for courses, submit grades, and manage records.
- Enhanced the student information dashboard and course marketplace with responsive mobile support and WCAG-compliant screen-reader accessibility, and refactored REST APIs to cut page load times by 70%.
- Normalized database schemas to eliminate redundant data slowing high-volume endpoints, reducing query times by 50%.
Software Engineer Intern
T-Mobile
Frisco, Texas
- Accelerated customer support by releasing a customer location indicator component on T-Mobile's 5G coverage map, speeding coverage diagnosis and reducing average call-handle time by 30%.
- Published an internal Node.js library in npm that standardized proof-of-possession token authorization across T-Mobile services, driving adoption across 5+ engineering teams and saving an estimated 200+ hours of boilerplate setup.
Projects
Things I've designed and built
Featured project
rabbitrole
An AI resume reviewer and job matcher
Upload a resume, pick the roles you're targeting, and get prioritized, explained feedback grounded in live job postings, then a list of real openings ranked by how well your resume actually fits them.
Featured project
Greppa
An AI-powered code security scanner
Upload a file or folder and get a plain-language security report: Semgrep finds the vulnerabilities, and an LLM explains why each one matters and suggests a concrete fix.
Education
Academic background
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
University of Houston
Houston, Texas
August 2020 — December 2022
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