Chris Cantú

About Chris Cantú

I am highly passionate and engaged Software Development Leader and Engineer. I seek to find the purpose and meaning in all that I do. Ultimately, I look to find ways to inspire and help the people around me. I aspire to leave a product or team in a better place than when I arrived.I have a wide variety of experiences in different industries and technologies including energy, education, financial, government and web hosting. My technology experience includes J2EE, Grails, Software as a Service and Front End Engineering. I have architected and built web applications/solutions for customer-driven sites such as irs.gov and my.rackspace.com. I prefer to solve the root cause of a problem in order to best meet my customers\' needs.My top five strengths are Strategic, Ideation, Focus, Futuristic and Woo. Additionally, my Meyers-Briggs type is ENFP. These characteristics reflect my personable and strategic nature. My specialties and areas of expertise include leadership, web application architecture, systems integration, problem-solving​ and team building.

Experience

1. Director of Engineering

   Procore Technologies

   Sep 2023 — Present · Austin, TX, US

   Organizational Transformation: Lead 60 engineers across 8 international engineering teams to drive $50M+ digital transformation initiative to modernize Procore\'s platform and product across the company improving resiliency and time to market* Improved Time to Market: Accelerated international expansion by reducing localization deployment from 6 months to minutes, enabling Procore to capture $12M+ revenue opportunity in Europe and Asian markets within first year* Strategic Leadership: Collaborate with VP of Product, VP of Engineering, and VP of Customer Success on technology decisions supporting Procore\'s expansion into AI-powered product initiatives and international market growth* Product Innovation: Created the platform that enabled a re-envisioning of the product to be contextual and customizable for end users* Effective Scaling: Achieved fast adoption of new technologies via modern automation and AI techniques saving millions in developer hours* Data Driven Decisions: Created and leveraged automated reporting of adoption, cost reduction and platform adoption to ensure informed decision making

Education

• Baylor University

  Bachelors of Business Administration, International Business, Information Systems, Spanish

• Baylor University

  Masters of Science, Information Systems

Skills

• Test Driven Development
• Continuous Integration
• Open Source
• Object Oriented Design
• Nodejs
• Business Process Improvement
• Sql
• Linux
• Grails
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Spring Framework
• Soap
• Subversion
• Html
• Testing
• Apache
• Soa
• Mvc
• Javascript
• Representational State Transfer (Rest)
• Software Design
• Integration
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Java
• Process Improvement
• Web Development
• Requirements Analysis
• Mentoring
• Web Applications
• Angularjs
• Agile Methodologies
• Team Building
• Software Engineering
• Json
• Spring
• Git
• Geb
• Team Leadership
• Groovy