# Kenneth Cruz πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ > Software Engineer at Fidelity Investments Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kennethcruz HTML5, CSS3, SCSS, JavaScript ES5/ES6, TypeScript, Python, Ruby, APIs, JSON, XML, OOP LIBRARY/FRAMEWORKS: Angular, Nx, Storybook, jQuery, Express.js, Handlebars.js, Node.js, React.js, Gatsby.js, Next.js, Django, Apollo-GraphQL, Styled Components, SASS, Bootstrap TESTING: Jest, Mocha, Chai DATABASES: PostgreSQL, GraphQL, MongoDB, Apollo PATTERNS: MVC, MTV TOOLS: Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC, InDesign CC, XD CC, Adobe Dimension, Sketch, Microsoft Office ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Fidelity Investments Jan 2022 – Present Developed and maintained critical applications in TypeScript, using Angular as my primary framework, which resulted in a 20% improvement in application performance and responsiveness. This was measured by user feedback and page load times. β€’ I also achieved 100% code testing coverage using Jest, leading to a significant 30% reduction in the number of post-release bugs, contributing to a more stable application environment. Additionally, I effectively utilized Nx to manage our mono repo, reducing the time required for code deployment by 25% and enabling faster feature delivery. β€’ As part of my role, I led code reviews and provided mentorship to my team, resulting in an average code quality improvement of 15% across the development team. β€’ I actively collaborated with cross-functional squads to expedite critical engineering tickets, ensuring timely project deliveries and exceeding service-level agreement (SLA) targets by 15%. This played a crucial role in launching and maintaining apps for other teams, enhancing overall company productivity, and contributing to an 80% increase in interdepartmental collaboration. β€’ I had the opportunity to design custom swag for quarterly check-ins, and it was very well-received, contributing to a remarkable 95% employee satisfaction rate during evaluations. ### Freelance Front End Engineer @ Self-Employed Jan 2018 – Present | New York, United States β€’ Use of Sketch and Adobe XD to create User Experience driven products. Ensuring the delivery of a User Interface that matches the brand of the client: from color, typography to the spacing of the site's UI. β€’ Use of Gatsby.js to take advantage of React components, and re-usability, to create static pages and optimize search engine optimization. β€’ By using gatsby-node to dynamically create pages based on headless CMS content (contentful.com), Clients are now able to create content and the code updates the site with the respective content ### Software Engineer @ Retrievr Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | New York City Metropolitan Area Collaborated in an agile work environment to redesign the front-end experience in cities where we serve communities in recycling electronics with a projected 1000+ visits per month. I demonstrated expertise in Sketch app, ReactJS, Redux, SCSS, and MaterialUI. β€’ Designed a responsive, and scalable customer-facing interface on Sketch app then implemented it by creating a unique state-machine app in NextJS, Redux toolkit as the global state management library while deploying through CICD pipeline onto Heroku β€’ My redesign and streamlining of the app has led to an additional million dollars in funding to enhance and expand the project ### Instructional Associate @ General Assembly Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Greater New York City Area β€’ Deliver technology skills training to prepare students for entry-level to mid-level careers in the field of software engineering β€’ Provide support to the instructional team by mentoring students and course progress. β€’ The students receive regular, timely feedback on performance, assignments, and course progress β€’ Led and trained Instructional Associates and Teaching Assistants β€’ Led class discussions and lessons ### Product Specialist @ Apple Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | New York, United States β€’ Monitored every Apple product life cycle. β€’ Showed customers the innovative world of Apple and from everything iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac, and Apple TV, plus exploring accessories, entertainment, and expert device support. β€’ Connected with customers on a high level: Led every connection with empathy: uncovering customers’ needs, and following through with enlightening solutions. ### Shift Supervisor @ Starbucks Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 ### Barista @ Starbucks Jan 2013 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area ### Instructional Associate @ Per Scholas Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 β€’ Reinforce and collaborate lessons presented by lead instructor. β€’ Created and reviewed lesson plans to introduce to students, increasing class performance by 40% ### Web Development Engineering Fellow @ General Assembly Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 β€’ 650+ hours of full stack application development. β€’ Created projects utilizing a variety of lang/tech learned at General Assembly PROJECTS hueClone β€’ Single player game modeled after "I love Hue" (available in the app store) β€’ Player is faced with a gradient mapped between boxes, each box is a single color entity, then rearranged the user then clicks and drags to rearrange the gradient to its correct order. β€’ Project was built with HTML, CSS, and jQuery uLog β€’ Full CRUD application built on Express, modeled after Tumblr. β€’ A blog space where the user is encouraged to share their "you-ness" so they can connect and bond with other users on things they love β€’ Project was built with Express, Node.js, Fetch, PSQL, EJS, Bcrypt, Javascript, CSS, HTML. Pal-Et β€’ CRUD application that gives developers and designers a palette with a hex code to give practice on what it means to make use of color for their projects. β€’ Application makes API calls to colormind.io for palettes β€’ At science fair where the project was presented the application printed out take away cards with color palettes and their hex codes. β€’ Project was built with React, Redux, SCSS, Bulma, Node.js/Express, Fetch ### Creative Director @ The Spectrum Newspaper, University at Buffalo Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 Create a cohesive newspaper trice a week, in close collaboration with Editor in Chief, writers, photo staff, to bring on campus news to print. ## Education ### Graphic design in Fine/Studio Arts, General University at Buffalo Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 ### Certificate of Completion in Web Development General Assembly Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 ### Web Development Per Scholas Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/knnyczr - Website: https://knnyczr.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/kennethcruz JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kennethcruz/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-23