Ana Ortega
Founder-partner And Structural Engineer at XC Ingenieria Estructural.
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolAna Ortega is a founder-partner and structural engineer based in Madrid with over two decades of practice in structural design and 11 years leading her own consultancy focused on complex, non-linear and dynamic finite element analyses. She has designed diverse typologies—bridges, tunnels, power stations, industrial plants and building rehabilitation—working across steel, concrete and composite materials. As co-developer and beta-tester of the open-source finite element program XC, she blends hands-on engineering with software development to deliver tailored simulation and automation tools for challenging geometries and load cases. Her firms specialize in problems that demand advanced techniques (transient, fatigue, non-linear behavior), translating research-grade analysis into buildable solutions. Trained at the Polytechnic University of Madrid in structural engineering, she pairs deep technical rigor with entrepreneurial experience running project-focused consultancies. Less obvious: her career began in engineering software development and hydraulic/dam FEA, which informs her rare combination of coding fluency and large-scale civil design expertise.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniera de caminos - Spanish 6-year Official Civil Engineering Degree, Specialised in structural engineering, Ingeniera de caminos - Spanish 6-year Official Civil Engineering Degree, Specialised in structural engineering at Polythechnic University of Madrid - Spain
Spanish, English, French
Github Skills (12)
finite-element-analysis10
open-source10
opensees10
civil-engineering10
structural-engineering10
computational-science7
petsc6
python6
parametric5
routines5
testing3
benchmark2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
xcfem/XCmanual
Jun 2015 - Aug 2020
Contributions:65 commits, 59 pushes, 1 comment in 5 years 3 months
anaiortega/parametricDesign
Feb 2016 - Dec 2022
Contributions:82 commits, 165 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 11 months
parametricphytonparametric-design
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