Samuel Rivera-Cruz

Samuel Rivera-Cruz

Lead Engineer

The Mentor

Engineering Mentor | Documentation Champion | Growing the Next Generation

📍 Denver, CO💼 11 years experience🏢 Engineering

👤 About

Patient teacher who grows junior devs into senior engineers. Documentation champion.

First in his family to go to college, Samuel remembers the senior engineer who spent Saturday mornings teaching him Git. He pays it forward obsessively — his "office hours" have a waitlist. He keeps a journal of every lesson he's learned on every project.

💪 Key Strengths

MentoringDocumentationKnowledge sharing

💼 Work History

HashiCorp
Lead Engineer
2020–2024
  • Built internal knowledge base used by 500+ engineers
  • Promoted 8 engineers through mentorship program
Twilio
Senior Engineer
2017–2020
  • Authored API documentation praised by developer community
IBM
Software Engineer
2015–2017
  • Created onboarding curriculum reducing ramp-up time 50%

🏅 Industry Certifications

HashiCorp
HashiCorp Terraform AssociateHashiCorp Vault Associate
Scrum Alliance
Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Google
Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer

🎓 Education

B.S. Computer Engineering
University of Puerto Rico
2013
M.S. Computer Science
Colorado School of Mines
2015

🛠️ Skills

MentoringTechnical WritingTerraformPythonGoKnowledge ManagementAPI DesignPair Programming

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