Jorge Escobar
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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SeniorJorge Escobar is a seasoned software engineering leader and founder, currently guiding OKO Labs as Fractional Head of Engineering while also leading Cogentii’s AI-augmented collaboration initiatives. With more than a decade of experience spanning startups, government programs, and nonprofit partnerships, he has steered engineering teams at Venmo, MongoDB, Emerson Collective, and the U.S. Digital Service toward scalable, impactful outcomes. He excels in rapid product delivery, architectural strategy, and building high-performing teams, evidenced by delivering a fully functional Session Replay tool for OKO Labs in four weeks and accelerating engineering hiring. As founder of MVP Lean and a MOOC instructor at From Zero to EDU, he also coaches tech leaders on engineering processes and people operations. Based in New York, he blends an electronics engineering foundation from Universidad Simón Bolívar with a proven ability to translate ambitious visions into practical, auditable tech solutions.
11 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
319reputation
56kreached
4answers
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Github Skills (70)
environmental9
facebook-api9
web-application9
health9
marshmallow9
climate-change9
integrate9
ghost9
nodejs9
falcon8
facebook-graph-api8
validation8
javascript8
flask8
urlshortener8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
esfoobar/quart-postgres-boilerplate
Aug 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:1 review, 34 PRs, 133 pushes in 4 months
esfoobar/qapi
Sep 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:2 reviews, 36 PRs, 100 pushes in 4 months
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