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11
Years

Alex Cruz

Technical Leader

I'm Alex Cruz, a 37-year-old born and raised Miami native with a burning desire to solve problems leveraging tech.

Bullets:

• Raised ~$400k seed round and launched a used-good local marketplace.

• 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.

• Bootstrapped a startup to ~$1 million in revenue within a year and was invited to pitch Y Combinator and Techstars.

Most recent accomplishments

When the pandemic began, a few colleagues and I wanted to help our community get the essential products they need at home. We felt that with our engineering and product development abilities and one of our friend’s connections to wholesalers, we could do our part to help during these unprecedented times. So, we quickly built an on-demand delivery service that provided essential supplies to residential and commercial customers. The results: We went viral locally and generated ~$1m in revenue in under a year. Everyone was pleased with our service, and that was a fulfilling experience to be a part of.

Shortly after Delyte, I started working 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.

Outside work, I spend most of my time learning about the latest Swift capabilities, decision-making, poker, and writing.

Delyte

Your Daily Essentials, Delivered

Get on the Delyte appi It allows you to purchase personal and home products, without leaving the San,. Of Your home- Easily Pay using a credit or debt card. The magic is in our stocked vans and dedicated skivers, who once your order is placed will deliver vvehin minutes instead of hours or clays.

  • Categories

  • Baby Items

  • Personal Care

  • Home Essentials

  • OTC Medicine

  • Eye Care

  • Snacks

  • Drinks

  • And More…

Daps

Buy & Sell with Friends and Communities

Daps is a free app that’s easy to use and an appealing way to sell stuff we no longer need or want. Daps connects you with your friends, neighbors, and those in other groups you’re a part of who want and need your stuff.

Why should you become a Daps user?

Because Daps is an easy way to sell stuff you don’t need, buy stuff you do need, save or earn money, and help out friends.

● Does it feel awkward telling friends or connections you have goods for sale?

● Do you want to save money by not paying retail, and are happy with previously owned items from people you trust?

● Are you fearful of meeting with, and buying from, or selling to strangers?

● Do you have concerns about the authenticity or quality of items from strangers?

● Are you worried about getting paid with bogus checks or counterfeit bills?

If you answer “Yes!” to any of these – then Daps is for you.

With Daps, you always know who exactly you’re dealing with – you can easily synchronize with your Facebook friends and your phone contacts.

Also, if you belong to local groups like a Church, Homeowner’s Association, School, or many other organizations – administrators can easily create private marketplaces so that you and others in your group can connect, buy and sell.

List items in seconds.

Set custom filters and be notified when friends list items in your preferred categories.

Browse friends profile for additional stuff you might like to buy.

Message with buyers or sellers through our private messaging system.

Buy & Sell with Friends!