Aaron Ortega
Senior Software Engineer - Data Backend
El Paso, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Ortega is a Senior Backend Engineer and data engineer with 8 years of experience building scalable data pipelines and backend services using Java, Go, Python, SQL, and a broad AWS stack. He has led migrations from Aurora to Snowflake, administered Snowflake accounts, and automated developer workflows with pre-commit and GitHub Actions, demonstrating both production rigor and developer-focused tooling. Comfortable across batch and streaming ecosystems—Spark, Kafka, Kinesis—and orchestration tools like Dagster and Airflow, he bridges data engineering and backend systems to deliver reliable APIs and analytics-ready platforms. A self-taught programmer with an MS in Physics from the University of Chicago, Aaron brings scientific rigor to engineering problems, having applied clustering and neural-network techniques in experimental research. Bilingual and a first-generation college grad and American of Mexican heritage, he pairs technical depth with mentorship experience, including volunteer TA work helping next-generation engineers. Based in El Paso, he combines hands-on implementation with a pragmatic, data-driven approach to system design.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Physics, Bachelor of Science, Physics at The University of Texas at El PasoMaster of Science - MS, Physics, Master of Science - MS, Physics at University of Chicago
Spanish
Github Skills (1)
dbt5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
aaron-ortega/aaron-ortega
Jul 2020 - Jun 2026
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 11 months
aaron-ortega/uchicago-crime-report
Sep 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:78 commits, 33 pushes in 4 months
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