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Alex Cruz

AI Engineer

...a born-and-raised Miami programmer.

Bullets:

• Mentored for three years by an industry pioneer who brought to market a revolutionary product still used today.

• Overhauled the onboarding layer of the world's largest creator commerce platform with a GMV > $12 billion and tens of millions of users.

• Built from scratch, 3 iPad applications used by aviation companies such as JetBlue and Air Canada.

• Developed from scratch two crypto-wallets with a flow of value in the tens of millions.

Most recent accomplishments

At LTK as a Senior iOS Developer. A global creator commerce platform, LTK empowers thousands of digital lifestyle influencers to achieve economic success. I LTK I overhauled our legacy onboarding and authentication technology by leveraging modern authentication best practices to simplify new-user registration with various IDPs (FB, Gmail, Apple login, etc.) while maintaining the highest standards of modern security practices.

Followed by, being the Tech Lead at Minnect. A marketplace to book 1:1 video calls with experts. In my short stint at Minnect, I successfully led an aggressive 8-week goal to redesign Minnect’s native iOS, Android, and web app and a significant change of the core Q&A functionality to a modern chat-like interface using Swift, Jetpack Compose, and REST API, which increased engagements between experts and users and overall earnings for experts by ~10x.

Currently at Wamy, I build and deploy production-grade AI systems for a claims-intelligence platform, delivering end-to-end TypeScript applications backed by Supabase and AWS, and shipping retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines and prompt orchestration that power real-world legal workflows, customer onboarding, and agent-focused automation.

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Feb 13, 2024

Write Less Convoluted ViewModels with Subscripts

The Swift programming language provides many convenient language features to access data immediately—for instance, the built-in subscripts for arrays and dictionaries. But what about custom Swift objects? Today, you'll learn how to access any property without relying on dot notation.

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Feb 13, 2024

Generics Beyond Ints and Strings in Swift

In the Swift programming language, certain concepts may appear daunting at first but hold immense power once understood. Generics is one of those concepts. Today, we will simplify their purpose and explore the elegance and versatility of generics.

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Jan 27, 2024

Visualize Reversing Linked Lists in Swift Differently

In the realm of algorithmic problem-solving, one challenge that often perplexes developers is the task of reversing a linked list. Today, we'll aim to unravel the intricacies of this problem and equip you with the insights needed to master this common algorithm.

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Mar 23, 2023

How to Make Technical Concepts Easier to Recall

Recalling abstract concepts can feel hopelessly challenging unless you have a framework to turn the abstract into something tangible. I overcome this challenge by using intellectual construct to identify situations that are familiar to me.

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Feb 28, 2023

Why You Should Use Async/Await Over Closures Moving Forward

Since Apple released Async/await in 2021, it has made writing asynchronous code amazingly pleasant for iOS developers. Writing straightline code rather than nested closures allows us to better express our intent to others.

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Aug 31, 2022

The Decorator Pattern Saved the Day

I recently encountered a challenging problem at work when given the task of integrating into our iOS codebase a new authentication service called Auth0. It's crucial to think; use UML diagrams to help you think; learn from others.

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May 30, 2022

Make Learning your Secret Weapon to a Stress-free Life

Learning about anything, especially anything nontrivial, will greatly improve your mental state. Learning how to learn makes learning even more enjoyable. Adopt these two ideas into your daily habits, and I guarantee you a boost in happiness and morale.

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Feb 28, 2022

Why iOS Developers Overlook the Usefulness of Unowned

Most iOS Developers I've talked to about unowned variables disregard its specific usefulness. If you spend some time digging into Swift's own documentation and doing your own hands-on tinkering, you'll quickly notice what makes unowned important.

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