Alberto Cruz

CosmoLex is the first cloud-based practice management and billing software for law firms. I joined CosmoLex via Hexacta in 2017 when there were only five people in the engineering department.

The startup phase of this company required us to work at a fast pace to have a strategic advantage over our competitors. I collaborated very closely with the product management to understand our users' needs and put the best working solutions on the market.

Since the application was used by 5,000+ users, we needed to keep a sharp focus on scalability and performance with every single feature we shipped to production.

I participated in the proof of concept to build an Outlook add-in for CosmoLex. This tool lets the user tag emails and relate them to CosmoLex from Outlook.

This add-in is simple and straightforward but lets the user work in a much faster way.

Ipaki is a billing system used in container terminals of several countries on the African coast. It registers all of the events applied to a container, such as arrivals to the terminal, unstuffing, and cleaning. Given a complex set of billing rules, the system generates the invoice for the corresponding client.

Apart from the core billing system, we developed an external portal for clients to pay their invoices. This required a strong focus on scalability since this application was aimed to be used by 3,000+ customers all over Africa.

Last but not least, we developed an application for handheld devices running on Windows 7 Mobile. The goal of this application was to record the arrival and departure of vehicles to the container terminal through cargo ships by scanning a barcode. Since there is typically no internet connection in the container terminal, we needed the application to work offline and create a module to upload the recorded events to the core billing system.

One of the best things I learned in this project was maintaining asynchronous communication with a client that was in a very different time zone since we shared only four hours of overlap.

Prodtech has a suite of products that serves four of the biggest logistics and supply chain operations in Latin America.

I took part in the development of several functionalities for a transportation management system, yard management system, and order management system where a customer could place his order using a shopping cart.

This is a React version of Generala, a dice game similar to Poker Dice.

I am building this project to play around with React and Redux and sharpen my front-end skills.

On a single screen, this game shows three different views for throwing the dice, showing possible combinations and the overall score.

The Node.js Accelerator is an exclusive learning program that educates JavaScript and back-end developers in Node.js, Express.js, NestJS, and TypeScript. This is a 2-month program that consists of rigorous learning exercises, live instructor-led sessions by SMEs, hands-on activities, a stringent evaluation process, comprehensive assessments, and an incremental project where participants implement a couple of Microservices (REST APIs) using Express.js and NestJS. The Incremental project simulates an eCommerce application consisting of two services, i.e., a user service to implement the authentication with user management and a product-catalog service that offers functionalities to manage inventory.