Engineering leadership
Building calmer delivery systems, healthier team dynamics, and more durable technical decision-making.
Gabriel Cruz
Experienced and reliable, built with a heavy technical fabric and a strong connection to the human emotions. Very communicative, good listener and entrepreneurial minded, loves to tinker with the tools he has to make them more useful and to adapt them to his current needs.
Available in a variety of models: Software Engineering Manager, squad lead, tribe lead, scrum master, agile coach, mentor, career advisor, confidant and overall facilitator. Can work as an independent unit, but will always find more rewarding to be part of a team.
| The old .Net Developer model was deprecated in February 2018.
Operating modes
Product translation
Turning ambiguity into plans that engineering, product, and humans can all live with.
Coaching and mentoring
Helping people grow into stronger contributors, leads, and managers without flattening their personality.
Team facilitation
Unblocking conversations, shaping alignment, and making useful momentum feel less accidental.
Organizational tuning
Working across teams, rituals, and incentives so systems stop fighting the people inside them.
Independent execution
Comfortable operating solo, but still convinced the best work tends to happen inside a strong team.
Field manual
Specifications
- Full name: Gabriel Antonio Cruz Fernandez
- Aliases: Gabo (preferred) Gabi and Gabri are tolerated, but will respond better to the preferred option; can also be found as gabonio on most online platforms.
- Manufactured: May 1, 1987 in Caracas, Venezuela
- Model: Male, 183 cm, around 100 kg
- Languages: Spanish, English, basic Catalan, almost-deprecated German
Manufacturing defects
- Allergies: Dust, dust-mites and certain types of pollen.
- Physical: Poor motor coordination (do not ask him to dance).
- Awareness: Can become a loud individual when excited or happy.
Firmware
- Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI): INFP-T
- The Four Tendencies: Questioner
- Sleep chronotype: Wolf - Night Owl / Evening Person
Environment
- Operating temperature: 15°C to 25°C preferred
- Storage temperature: should stay below 30°C
- 70 dB level of background noise works better than total silence
Fuel
- Preferred liquid fuel: coffee
- Preferred solid fuel: most things
- Known intolerances: none
Hobbies and fun facts
- His first console was a hand-me-down Atari that was already outdated at the time.
- He has been playing video games since he was about four years old, now favoring RPGs and proudly embracing his completionist streak with many PlayStation platinum trophies.
- He used to be an olympic weightlifting coach at CrossFit Eixample in Barcelona.
- He is a Padi DiveMaster, but has never actually worked as such.
- Loves short-sleeve t-shirts and will wear them even in winter.
- Likes and has tried many extreme sports.
- Has a dark sense of humor.
- Will be very happy to be invited to a BBQ, and will love to cook while he is there.
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