Software Developer
Gabriel Cruz
Software developer with 4+ years of experience building scalable cloud-native applications, automation systems, and LLM-powered solutions for enterprise clients.
Skills
Technologies and tools I work with
Languages
JavaScriptTypeScriptJavaPHPPythonC++C#SQLNoSQLHTMLCSSTailwind
Frameworks & Libraries
ReactReduxAngularSpring BootNode.jsNext.jsLangChainStripeOpenAI APIFastAPI
Databases
MySQLPostgreSQLMongoDBFirestore
Tools & Platforms
GitGitHubGitLabJiraNPMWebpackFirebaseDockerCI/CDVercelAWSRAGTerraform
Experience
My professional journey
Software Developer IV
Paycom
Irving, Texas
- Designed and shipped 5+ automation features for Paycom's onboarding platform, serving 36,000+ client organizations from small business through Fortune 500 companies.
- Automated employee data flow across Applicant Tracking, Background Checks, and Onboarding modules, eliminating 80% of manual re-entry and cutting average HR processing time per new hire.
- Mentored junior software developers through code reviews, technical guidance, and collaborative debugging sessions, improving development velocity, code quality, and adherence to engineering best practices across the team.
- Streamlined the rehire workflow for Paycom, removing manual PAF submissions and saving client HR teams an estimated 1,000+ hours annually across the client base.
Software Developer III
Paycom
Irving, Texas
- Led design and delivery of a new onboarding email communications module, automating 100,000+ new hire emails per month with a configurable scheduling system built in React.
- Architected a web-queue-worker system that orchestrated thousands of concurrent asynchronous email processes, boosting application throughput and enabling real-time email delivery.
- Built backend APIs in PHP and a React dashboard for managing communication configurations, reducing manual email coordination time for HR teams by 60%.
Software Developer II
Paycom
Grapevine, Texas
- Led automation of international onboarding workflows across five countries, dynamically rendering country-specific forms using an MVC architecture with PHP backend and JavaScript frontend.
- Authored detailed product specifications and translated cross-functional stakeholder and user feedback into clearly scoped engineering requirements, accelerating feature delivery cycles.
- Designed, normalized, and optimized MySQL database schemas and query performance for high-traffic onboarding endpoints, improving average read response times by an estimated 40%.
Application Developer
University of Houston, Enterprise Systems
Houston, Texas
- Developed and maintained backend services built in Java and user interfaces with JavaScript for campus web applications used daily by 47,000+ students and 3,000+ faculty.
- Modernized the UI/UX of the course marketplace and student information dashboard, improving navigation, accessibility, and visual consistency.
- Integrated PeopleSoft campus solution software with custom-built tools and tuned PostgreSQL schemas, improving query performance on high-volume endpoints.
Software Engineer Intern
T-Mobile
Frisco, Texas
- Shipped a feature on T-Mobile's 5G Coverage Map that let chat support agents pinpoint customers' approximate locations, reducing average call-handle time. Wrote Spring Boot APIs and an Angular dashboard component.
- Authored an internal JavaScript library that simplified API authorization across T-Mobile services, adopted by 10+ teams and saving an estimated 200+ hours of boilerplate code.
Education
Academic background
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
University of Houston
Houston, Texas
August 2020 — December 2022
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