{"name":"Eduardo Cruz","headline":"AI-native senior Laravel engineer and fractional CTO","summary":"Brazilian senior Laravel engineer and AI-native fractional CTO based in Recife (UTC-3), working hours that overlap US EST\/CST. Builds production AI agents with the Laravel AI SDK, Claude Code, and the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and helps solo founders and small SaaS teams ship real software with AI.","location":{"city":"Recife","country":"BR","timezone":"America\/Recife","utc_offset":"-03:00"},"remote":true,"languages":["English (fluent)","Portuguese (native)","Chinese (HSK Level II)"],"experience":[{"area":"Web development","since":1994},{"area":"PHP","since":2007},{"area":"Laravel","since":2012},{"area":"AI-native engineering","since":2024}],"disambiguation":"Not the actor \"Eduardo Cruz Sr.\" and not the Spanish singer (Wikidata Q3048320).","urls":{"website":"https:\/\/eduardocruz.com","linkedin":"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/eduardocruz","github":"https:\/\/github.com\/eduardocruz","upwork":"https:\/\/www.upwork.com\/fl\/eduardocruz"}}