Álvaro Ortiz
Fundador at Fundación Ayuda Efectiva
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolÁlvaro Ortiz is a serial founder and product-minded technologist with 12 years of experience building civic tech and marketplace products from idea to scale. He leads Populate and Gobierto, creating open-source platforms and data-driven tools for transparency, public procurement intelligence, and citizen engagement while combining design, UX and hands-on engineering. His background spans startups and scale-ups—launching La Coctelera to millions of monthly views, co-founding the prototype behind Change.org in Spain, and growing teams that shipped Rails and open-source solutions. Based in Madrid, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with a track record in marketing-led growth and public-sector impact, and he also helps steer effective philanthropy as a trustee of Fundación Ayuda Efectiva. Notably, he blends product strategy with practical tooling for civic engagement rather than focusing solely on technology for its own sake.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Licenciado, Comunicación Audiovisual, Licenciado, Comunicación Audiovisual at Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Github Skills (47)
open-government10
democracy10
rails10
data-visualisation10
collective-intelligence10
ruby10
transparency10
open-data10
ruby-on-rails10
web-platform9
objectionjs9
origami8
datasette7
capistrano7
del7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
TrackDons/trackdons
Nov 2014 - Jan 2016
Lets TrackDons
Contributions:209 commits, 28 PRs, 57 pushes in 1 year 2 months
PopulateTools/populate.tools
Jun 2015 - Jan 2022
Our website
Contributions:2 reviews, 206 commits, 38 PRs in 6 years 8 months
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