Héctor Ortiz
Sr Staff Distributed Systems Engineer at Tesla
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolHéctor Ortiz is a Sr. Staff Distributed Systems Engineer in San Francisco with a decade of experience building highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant systems for companies like Tesla and HERE Technologies. He specializes in real-time and batch big-data architectures, leveraging Java/Scala, Akka, Spark/Flink, and AWS to design services that meet multi-nine SLAs and massive throughput demands. He's moved from hands-on development to senior technical leadership—owning architecture, mentoring teams, and selecting technologies to ensure resilience and operational excellence. Beyond production systems, Héctor has contributed to the developer ecosystem as a co-author of the Akka Cookbook and as a reviewer for multiple Packt publications on RabbitMQ and serverless patterns. He combines telecom engineering roots with cloud-native practices, frequently translating complex distributed requirements into pragmatic, testable implementations. Known for shipping production-ready systems repeatedly and for deep expertise in event-driven design, he thrives on solving failure-mode and scalability challenges.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of TechnologyOnline Courses Computer Science, Online Courses Computer Science at Coursera - Free Online CoursesMaster's Degree Information Technology and Management, Master's Degree Information Technology and Management at Illinois Institute of TechnologyIngeniero Telecomunicación, Ingeniero Telecomunicación at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
English, Spanish
Github Skills (101)
actor-framework10
python10
websocket10
akka-cluster10
apache-arrow10
cloud-native10
actor-model10
concurrency10
streaming10
sql-query10
reactive10
akka10
akka-streams10
sql10
rust10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
hveiga/datafusion
Jun 2024 - Jun 2024
Apache DataFusion SQL Query Engine
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
hveiga/akka-stream-contrib
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches, 15 comments in 2 days
akka-streamadd-onsscalastreamakka
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