Angel Ortega
Senior Software Data Engineer
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolAngel Ortega is a Senior Software Data Engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale data and ML pipelines using Scala, Spark, Kafka, and cloud platforms (AWS and Azure). He has delivered production ML-driven products for cybersecurity and IoT at Forescout and scaled data platforms and event-driven ETL at Humana and The Cydio Group, now contributing to ad-tech at InterMedia Advertising. A first-generation UCSB Computer Engineering graduate, he blends research in HCI and NLP with practical distributed-systems engineering, evidenced by CHI-accepted work on detecting visual news bias. Angel’s background in language detection, entity resolution, and high-accuracy device classification shows a rare mix of cutting-edge ML, solid software craftsmanship, and operational tuning. He pairs strong tooling and testing practices (SBT/Gradle, CI/CD, unit testing, Terraform) with hands-on infrastructure experience across Kubernetes, Docker, EMR, and Databricks. Outside engineering, he brings a deep engagement with social justice and feminist studies, informing a human-centered perspective on data systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics and Biology, Mathematics and Biology at Chaffey CollegeBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering at UC Santa BarbaraMathematics and Computer Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Engineering at University of California, RiversideHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Henry J. Kaiser
English, Spanish, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (26)
javascript10
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linux10
editor9
text-editor9
electron9
macos9
scala-collections6
jupyter-notebook6
functional-programming6
case-class6
dictionary6
dataframe6
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apache-spark6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
joyoyoyoyoyo/lamport-logical-clocks-in-a-distributed-system
Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:48 commits in 8 days
joyoyoyoyoyo/naive-bayes-movie-classification
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:64 commits in 5 days
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