# Alfonso Santacruz García > Software Engineer @ Google Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/alfonsosantacruzgarca ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Google Jan 2022 – Present | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Youtube - Video Edge Streaming and Performance ### Software Engineer Intern @ Twitter Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 ### Software Engineer Intern @ Datadog Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 ### Software Engineer Intern @ Twitter Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Software Engineer Intern @ Figma Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Software Engineering Intern - Finance Team @ Minerva Project Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area - Reduced Finance Team’s working time by 20 hrs/wk through developing and implementing a web payroll platform to track salaries and working hours of 500+ employees using Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB, Heroku, Google Apps Scripts and Google Sheets API. - Developed an automated pipeline for the HR department to create, send and store 250+ contracts, reducing 15 min. of work per hire. Used Google Sheets and Drive APIs, HelloSign API in Python. ### Finance Intern @ Minerva Project Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Remote - San Francisco Bay Area ### Finance Intern - Payroll and Sublease Billing Coordinator @ Minerva Project Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Remote - San Francisco, Bay Area - Proposed and developed a currently implemented automated payroll system for 500+ employees improving privacy, security and corporate accountability while reducing work time by 5 hrs./week on payroll affairs. Monitors and tests with Python and Javascript on Google Apps Script/API - Developed an automated rentroll payment system for 100+ tenants distributed in two company’s buildings and internal reconciliations using Javascript on Google App Script and Google API. ### Finance and HR Intern @ Minerva Project Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Software Engineer Intern - Computer Vision @ Sgmoid.com Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Hyderabad Area, India - Designed and developed an image captioning pipeline by applying a CNN-RNN in Bahdanau Attention with Imagenet weights, using the IU X-Ray Dataset and InceptionV3 architecture. The model surpassed validation accuracy metrics (BLEU, ROGUE AND CIDER) by 3% with respect to academic papers. - Implemented progressive resizing in Res-Net 34 CNN to develop an image classifier (~92% accuracy) from 3000+ images of eye retinas in fast.ai and Pytorch to speed up diabetic retinopathy detection in rural areas of India. - Deployed models on several GCP cloud functions. Developed a company UI using HTML/CSS/JS which integrated these models to serve predictions in production at scale. ### Software Engineer Intern @ SK Encar.com (SK엔카닷컴) Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Jung-gu, Seoul, Korea - Implemented MobileNetV2 CNN to develop an image classifier (93% accuracy) of 500+ different cars using Tensorflow, Keras and Numpy Stack in Python. Collaborated using Git and Scrumban. - Created an Automated Image Crawler to download and classify 10000+ images of different cars to train our Deep Learning model while detecting data imbalance using Selenium Webdriver. - Deployed the classifier for production as a serverless API endpoint using AWS Lambda. ### #EarlyBird Program Participant @ Twitter Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area - One of 30 attendees selected out of +1200 applicants to attend a one-week interactive program for first-year computer science majors focused on professional and technical development including networking, personal branding, resume writing and creation of a feature on Twitter’s platform. - To make it easier to read all conversations around a Tweet, we proposed and developed the now deployed Retweets and comments feature. Explored monetization and implementations aspects as well as ethical implications. The idea was demoed using NodeJS, HTML/CSS and JQuery. ### Data Analyst @ San Francisco Department of Public Health Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area The San Francisco Department of Public Health Food Pharmacy Program is committed to providing high blood pressure patients a service that prescribes food as medicine. My team and I worked with SFDPH to optimize the service for patients. Some accomplishments include: calling 300+ patients, visiting food pharmacy clinics, performing data analysis and presenting a report to the Food Pharmacy committee. ### Full-Time Missionary @ The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Salvador Area, Brazil - Led a group of 10-15 co-volunteers spread throughout different regions, conducted weekly training meetings and provided motivation in order to help them reach their goals. - Provided teaching for individuals and families to help them have more service-oriented lives and stronger relationships within their homes and in society. ### Finance Manager @ The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Salvador Area, Brazil - Developed and implemented automated computer systems to innovate the traditional operation model for 200+ missionaries travel logistics, expenses record keeping and reconciliations while avoiding erroneous remittances, reducing time & costs by closely 40% compared to last semester. - Escalated automated computer systems to successfully manage a $1 million budget in transportation, payroll for staff of 200+, events organization, housing lease and maintenance of about 60 leases while healing a debt of $20K during 5 months of continuous operations by modeling expected expenses. - Successfully collaborated in the development and implementation of strategic partnerships with transportation companies such as Uber for Business to innovate and improve the safety of the missionaries during transfers as well as facilitate reconciliations and budgeting. ### Co-Founder & CFO @ Scitum Revolución Educativa Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Monterrey y alrededores, México Developed and implemented a scalable business model, including pricing, cash flow reconciliations and payroll for staff of 20, reaching profitability within its first year of operations. Consolidated departmental responsibilities and streamlined accounting systems, record keeping and reconciliations. ### Math and Physics Teacher @ Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Monterrey Area, Mexico Teacher of Physics and Mathematics in English for High School Seniors at the Bilingual Program. Centro de Investigacion y Desarrollo en Educacion Bilingue de la Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon. (CIDEB - UANL) ## Education ### Undegraduate in Computational Science - Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Minerva University ### Associate's degree in Bilingual and Multilingual Education Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León ### International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme. International Baccalaureate ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alfonso-santacruz --- Source: https://flows.cv/alfonsosantacruzgarca JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/alfonsosantacruzgarca/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31