Summary
Mike Ortiz is a Principal Software Engineer with two decades of experience designing, building, and operating cloud platforms. Based in the Greater St. Louis area, he currently leads engineering at Modern Technology Solutions, Inc., driving scalable cloud-native architectures and reliable platform delivery. He is a proven technical leader with hands-on expertise across Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, Go, Python, and AWS, Azure, and GCP. His career spans roles at Bayer Crop Science, Rackspace, Catalyze.io, Image API, and MTSI, where he built CI/CD pipelines, automation tooling, and platform services. Notable work includes automating AWS onboarding and logging configurations, implementing end-to-end CI/CD processes for multi-platform infrastructure and applications, and contributing to HL7 healthcare messaging platforms and edge technology exploration.
10 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Taos High School
English, Spanish