# Jude Morrissey Cruz > Senior Software Engineer at Merit Location: South San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jude I love user-facing product engineering and working together with the product team to help solve problems, bring their ideas to life, and make end-user experiences better. I still however describe myself as a well-rounded developer who thrives best in the good company of teammates working together towards a common goal. Always willing and looking forward to learning new things, and I love sharing my knowledge to others. B.S. Computer Science, cum laude Graduate of Fall 2011 at San Francisco State University. As I have advanced in my career, I have found it necessary that where you work and the people you work with possess great work ethic, foster a healthy work-life balance, and nurture a positive encouraging culture. As of 2018, I have found myself longing for a software team leader position, where I can mentor and nurture budding junior engineers, collaborate with my team to arrive at solutions and make decisions, and further my soft skills to complement my software development expertise. As of 2022, I have decided to embrace my love of working on user-facing products alongside a great product team whose ideas I help bring to life. I feel most accomplished shipping out a feature and knowing that it benefits the end user. At the same time, I still yearn to be able to teach and mentor others often both for my own development and theirs. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Merit Jan 2022 – Present | Millbrae, California, United States Fullstack development, primarily focusing on frontend using Expo + ReactNative for web and native iOS/Android platforms. Also worked on Golang backend services. One of my favorite projects at Merit is being the tech lead on adding localization support to our Member App, starting with supporting languages other than English. Researched and proposed short and long term strategies for internationalization. Worked with stakeholders to come up with a stage-appropriate process for managing translations given MVP launch time and budget constraints. Wrote documentation and added additional tooling to help preserve developer experience while ensuring the process is manageable. This multilingual initiative helped the company secure new deals. Another project is leading the frontend development of the Share Merits initiative. Built the foundations of the Share Merits web app and supporting flows in the Member App. Worked with product to go through initial product requirements, identify major pieces needed and level of effort for each, and prioritize accordingly for MVP and subsequent versions. Break down and create tasks from product stories with ease of tracking and visibility, and distribution of work across other devs in mind. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Athenascope Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Mountain View, California, United States Hopped aboard as a generalist developer first working on projects revolving around the Athenascope website built in React for a handful of weeks, then quickly transitioned into fullstack React Native mobile development of the mobile app shortly from its beginning up to alpha, closed beta, and open beta launches. My favorite projects here include: - a blend of rapid prototyping and semi-rigid roadmap features, including My Content, user onboarding flow, and adding a per-video clip trimming step in the create remix user flow - a whole bunch of tooling for helping out the team such as setting up nightly builds to Firebase, a hidden dev menu in the app for enabling better testing and development, admin pages for introspection into our emerging communities feature, etc I have been primarily focused on mobile app feature development, doing a blend of backend and frontend work as needed to support said features I owned from start to finish and beyond, working closely with product and design along the way. I really enjoyed working the last couple of months doing primarily user facing product engineering, which plays a lot to my key strengths of working together with the product team and making their ideas come to life, give or take a few compromises as needed to meet company goals of course. ### Software Engineer @ Pilot AI Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Palo Alto, California, United States HTTP/C++ API related backend work, and React frontend work. ### Lead Software Engineer @ Grokker Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 ### Software Engineer @ Grokker Jan 2014 – Jan 2019 | San Jose I've done just about all of it: frontend, backend, and development and operations. My favorite projects here include: - extracting Grokker Wellbeing Minutes from HealthKit data, then reconciling and deduplicating that with Wellbeing Minutes from other sources - adding downloading videos for offline viewing on the iOS app - laying out the foundations for the GrokTalk feature, including encrypting the messages at rest - Programs V2, planning a seamless transition of all supported platforms to the new and improved feature where users can now schedule their program based on their available days - setting up StatsD/Graphite + Grafana and an ELK stack for performance metrics and logging, respectively, which has been massively useful in continuously improving and maintaining our service You may find me all over the place as needs arise. Need to scale infrastructure a bit more? I'm there in AWS launching new instances, ready to get a build installed and ran. New feature request in iOS? I got you covered with opening up new methods in the REST API then consequently updating the app's code, though I hope it's Swift not Objective-C (I'm in love with the former). Roku woes? Might be Basic, might be BrightScript. I try to React appropriately, even React-Natively in Android if the opportunity arises. Otherwise you'd find me working with NodeJS for our web browser experience. I'm also the resident Otamatone player, and while I still suck at the violin, I can fall back on my home instruments, vocals and keyboard. ### Software Engineer @ OPSWAT Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 Developed for supporting an SDK project alongside with multiple other engineers both in-house and overseas, traveled overseas to visit satellite office and coordinate with main office. Subsequently inherited a project code base and became de facto lead developer for a PC-health-esque desktop application project mainly developed using OOP C++, MFC, COM, and an HTMLWebView for the GUI. Most recent project involved with is being part of developing a REST API, using Java, Maven, and Dropwizard, where data is retrieved using MongoDB. Created and maintains a JavaFX desktop client as an internal testing tool for said REST API. Maintains a Linux dataminer system utilizing shell scripts and ruby scripts. Wrote various Ruby modules and interactive scripts as internal tools for developers to use for modifying our Mongo database. Other non-coding but essential accomplishments include defining automated build targets and related using Teamcity, being one of the go-to Git repository management gurus, ticketing system using JIRA. Setup Amazon Web Services for our project to host MongoDB replica set, and our production servers using Linux instances in Amazon EC2. ### Software Analyst Intern @ OPSWAT Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | San Francisco, CA I am part of the Software Analyst Team, and I am doing work with improving the OESIS Framework. Typical work involves analyzing existing software and figuring out ways to control said software via writing Lua scripts that can call upon exposed C++ functions. Also involved in looking over C++ code and mimicking implementations into Lua code. Use of JIRA ticketing system, SVN and GIT versioning control, and multiple virtual machines are also essential in the regular everyday workflow. Coordinate with other developers and QA engineers to resolve any issues arising from code review and QA tests. ### Asset Management and Technical Support Intern @ City and County of San Francisco Jan 2008 – Jan 2011 | San Francisco, CA I worked with the SFO Airport Commission, under the Design and Construction Division. Highlights of my work include: • Provided extensive technical support to a division of approximately 100 engineering employees • Coordinated and managed proper deployment and distribution of technology and software • Assessed problems and proposed efficient solutions intending to minimize user downtime • Assisted in server backups, upgrades, maintenance, installs, and restores • Collaborated with other design trainees in creating an efficient web based asset reporting and management system for management use • Assisted in designing and creating departmental web site • Devised tracking and inventory protocols to more efficiently track technological assets • Wrote multiple guides for minor but recurring technical issues to contribute to our knowledge base • Wrote scripts to automate certain tasks specific to users such as reconnecting to a network drive on startup or doing a local backup of a network location ## Education ### BS in Computer Science San Francisco State University Jan 2007 – Jan 2011 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/judemorrissey - Website: http://phoenix.sfsu.edu/~f11g08/index.php - Website: http://code.google.com/p/sfsu-csc780-mobilept --- Source: https://flows.cv/jude JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jude/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22