Summary
Ivan Oropeza is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-throughput, machine-intelligence driven features—most recently powering Google Photos’ “Memories” and now at Tesla. He designs and operates services that handle hundreds of thousands of QPS, blending expertise in large-scale systems, ML/AI, and algorithm design with hands-on skills in Java, Python, C/C++, C#, and SQL. His work spans core infrastructure, asset curation frameworks, and user-facing narrative generation, including leading the development of a photo-clustering "Similar Shots" memory and cross-client Memories overhauls. A UT Austin CS graduate and former research assistant in IR evaluation, he brings a data-driven approach informed by crowdsourcing and noisy-judgement studies, plus a background of internships across Google, Cisco, and Travelocity that sharpened his product and tooling instincts.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
English, Spanish