Alvaro Ortega
Tech Board Member at Inditex
Miami-Fort Lauderdale Area United States
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Top SchoolAlvaro Ortega is a seasoned technology executive with 20+ years building hyperscale infrastructure and bridging low-level engineering (Linux kernel, GNU maintainer) with board-level strategy. Currently Director of Cloud Platform at Pinterest, he manages a $3.25B AWS commitment and platforms serving 600M users, 1 Exabyte of data and hundreds of millions of AI inferences per second, while also advising Inditex on a €2.7B digital transformation. He has led large global teams and modernized compute fleets at eBay and Akamai, delivering major cost, carbon and availability improvements through initiatives like Graviton migrations and global federated Kubernetes. A proven turnaround leader, he scaled Docker’s engineering to triple ARR and has repeatedly translated kernel-to-cloud expertise into commercial and operational gains. Dual US-EU citizenship and extensive open source roots give him unusual fluency across AMER, EMEA and LATAM for global governance, M&A and build-vs-buy decisions. Beyond executive impact, his Cherokee Web Server and long-standing GNU stewardship show a rare mix of product invention and enduring technical credibility.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science: Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science: Artificial Intelligence at Universidad EuropeaJohns Hopkins UniversityDiploma, Data Analysis in Experimental Science, Diploma, Data Analysis in Experimental Science at Royal Academy of Doctors in StatisticsGlobal Senior Management Program (GSMP), Executive Development Program, Global Senior Management Program (GSMP), Executive Development Program at The University of Chicago Booth School of BusinessPh.D.: Certificate of Research Proficiency, Telematic Engineering: Advanced Networking, Ph.D.: Certificate of Research Proficiency, Telematic Engineering: Advanced Networking at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (32)
socket10
port-forwarding10
udp9
tcp9
que9
credentials8
totp8
factor8
csharp8
socket-server7
application-server7
ruby7
keychain7
python7
ssh7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
vrandkode/stuk
Oct 2018 - Oct 2019
Stuk is a solution for securely managing SSH on remote computers using Port knocking mechanism. Enables automatic provisioning of SSH keys and access with a multiple access control (MFA) and/or Universal (U2F) authentication factor. Scalable solution and applicable to cloud and physical IT infrastructures.
Contributions:66 commits, 35 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
port-forwardingport-knockingpythonqrcoderuby
vrandkode/marshmallows
Oct 2019 - Dec 2019
Desplegados como nubes bajo infraestructuras visibles entre sí, y que permiten gestiones y comunicaciones seguras SSH entre dispositivos IoT que penden de ellos. Reforzados con mecanismos de seguridad ligeros y autenticación por doble factor 2FA o con claves físicas U2F.
Contributions:148 commits, 42 PRs, 84 pushes in 1 month
porseguridadconsshfactor
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