Available for projects

I build AI & data
platforms that ship.

13+ years leading engineering teams, data infrastructure, and AI-native systems — from the first commit to production at scale. Ex-CTO. Open to remote roles worldwide and fractional engagements.

LC
Luis Alberto Cruz
AI & Data Platform Leader · Ex-CTO
Available now
13+
Years in platform engineering
80%
AWS cost reduction achieved
10+
Core platforms built from scratch
60
Engineers led at peak
Core stack
PythonAWSLLMsSnowflakeTerraformn8nPostgreSQLEmbeddings


Experience

A track record
that speaks for itself.

High-impact industries — fintech, proptech, media-tech — from engineering individual contributor to CTO.

Nov 2024 — Mar 2026
Idilio TV
Entertainment
Head of Data & ML

Designed and built AI-assisted content intelligence and performance measurement systems for a streaming platform, including analytics infrastructure, decision-support tooling, and executive-facing data products.

Dec 2021 — Nov 2025
Casa Bravo
PropTech
Chief Technology Officer

Built 5 core platforms from scratch (CRM, ERP, Listing, client portal, partner portal). When budget cuts reduced the team to 2 engineers, adopted an AI-driven development process ("Think Twice, Do Once") that maintained full delivery capacity. Reduced AWS costs 80% through architecture redesign.

Jun 2021 — Dec 2021
Covalto
FinTech → Bank
Senior Data Engineer

Implemented the company's first Data Governance framework during its transition from fintech to bank. Led the migration of data infrastructure from AWS to GCP, handling billions of transactional records with zero data loss.

Sep 2019 — Jun 2021
TrueHome
PropTech · Acquired by Loft
Main Engineer

Led a team of 40 in-house engineers + 20 contractors across backend, frontend, data, DevOps and QA. Designed Terraform-based infrastructure, implemented CI/CD, and prevented multiple security incidents during a period of rapid growth.


Stack

Technologies in production.

Not in tutorials — in real systems serving thousands of users.

AI & ML

LLMsEmbeddingsVector SearchRAGn8nPrompt Eng.ML Pipelines

Data

SnowflakePostgreSQLETL / ELTdbtAirflowData MartsData Governance

Cloud & DevOps

AWSGCPTerraformDockerCI/CDPulumiFinOps

Backend

PythonDjangoFastAPIGraphQLNode.jsFlaskMicroservices

Services

What I can do
for your company.

Direct engagement — no middlemen, no agencies. I work with founders, CTOs, and leadership teams.

🤖
AI-Native Platforms
LLMs, embeddings, vector search, and ML pipelines from architecture to production. Systems that actually work at scale.
📊
Data Architecture
Snowflake, ETL/ELT, data marts, governance frameworks, and analytics systems that support real business decisions.
☁️
Cloud & FinOps
Cost reduction without slowing delivery. AWS/GCP architecture, automation, and rightsizing that generates real savings fast.
Fractional CTO
Strategic technical leadership for startups and scale-ups that need senior direction without the full-time commitment.
🏗️
Platform Engineering
Full SaaS platforms built from scratch — CRM, ERP, client portals. Fast delivery, CI/CD, and architectures built to scale.
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Engineering Teams
Team structure, AI-assisted development workflows, delivery processes and high-performance engineering culture.
Ready to work together?

Let's build something real.

If you're working on AI or data and need a technical leader who has done it before — I'm available now.