About Lloyd Dela Cruz

Operational systems for healthcare, engineered from inside the workflow.

Vancouver, BC · Healthcare workflow engineering · Analytics · Applied AI

I build operational software for healthcare — workflow systems, analytics tools, and AI-assisted features designed to hold up in real clinical use. My background is Industrial Engineering, shaped by years working inside high-acuity hospital environments.

Over the last several years I've moved from frontline care into the systems side of healthcare — an MSc in Data Analytics, certifications in analytics, cloud, and applied AI, and a wheelchair-logistics platform now running across four Vancouver Coastal Health sites. Alongside it sits a growing portfolio of healthcare data, applied-AI, and automation systems — clinical documentation pipelines, workflow automation, risk and population-health tools. I'm still a Rehabilitation Assistant at VCH; the engineering work grew out of problems I kept watching happen on shift.

9+

Years at VCH

200+

Patient plans / yr

4 / 800+

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Lloyd Dela Cruz
Open to healthcare data, analytics, AI & application engineering roles

Certifications

BrainStation — Data AnalyticsGoogle — Data AnalyticsDeepLearning.AI — Data EngineeringAWS — AI Practitioner

Core stack

SQLPythonRTableau

Career evolution

My professional journey.

From Industrial Engineering to applied AI — a multi-decade arc across continents, disciplines, and the systems behind healthcare.

  1. 2007 — 2012

    Industrial Engineering & early career

    Earned a BSc in Industrial Engineering in 2007. Spent the first few years in sales, then relocated to Singapore for engineering work on sustainable-energy projects. Applied Lean Six Sigma to cut project timelines by ~15% and costs by ~20% — the foundation for how I still approach systems and operations today.

    Project ManagementLean Six SigmaProcess OptimizationContract Management
  2. 2012 — 2016

    Starting over in Canada

    Moved to Canada in 2012 and rebuilt from the ground up. Worked service, security, and cleaning jobs to fund full-time study — Rehabilitation Assistant Diploma at Vancouver Community College, then Sustainability Management at UBC. The grind itself was the curriculum: every job taught me something about how people actually use systems.

    AdaptabilityResilienceTime ManagementCustomer Service
  3. 2016 — 2022

    Healthcare practice at VCH

    Joined Vancouver Coastal Health as a Rehabilitation Assistant in 2016. Supported 200+ patient care plans per year across three hospital sites — outpatient and acute. Six years close to the operational gaps that don't show up in reports: scheduling friction, equipment misplacement, handoffs that fall through. That's where the engineering work started.

    Patient careClinical workflowsEquipment logisticsCross-team coordinationCerner
  4. 2022 — Presentnow

    Engineering, analytics & applied AI

    Began layering engineering, data, and applied AI work on top of clinical practice. Completed an MSc in Data Analytics at Eastern University; earned certifications across analytics, cloud, and applied AI (BrainStation, Google, DeepLearning.AI, AWS AI Practitioner); shipped a wheelchair-tracking platform now running across four VCH sites with 800+ tracked assets; and built a portfolio of healthcare prototypes — a clinical GenAI documentation pipeline, an enterprise workflow automation engine, and applied-ML risk and population-health tools. Still at VCH — open to healthcare data, analytics, AI, and application engineering roles.

    PythonSQLTableauAWSNext.jsTypeScriptFastAPIPostgreSQLApplied AI

What drives me

What drives me.

The principles that guide how I scope, build, and ship systems. Tap a card for how each shows up in practice.

Technical expertise

Technical expertise.

Three overlapping bodies of work: applied AI engineering, full-stack product development, and nearly a decade inside healthcare operations. Each area reflects a different layer of the systems work.

Let's build the next healthcare system.

I'm running a multi-site hospital equipment-tracking and analytics system in production, and I'm open to healthcare data, analytics, AI, and application engineering roles — remote, hybrid, or on-site. The best way in is a short conversation.

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