Jorge Ortiz
Machine Learning Engineer at Factored
Bogota, Colombia
Summary
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Top SchoolJorge Ortiz is a Machine Learning Engineer and mechatronics-trained robotics enthusiast with 10 years of experience building AI-driven products and teams from prototype to production. He currently leads ML efforts at Factored and co-founded SamiBot, bringing practical expertise in cognitive document analysis (OCR, layout, NER) and LLM/NLP pipelines for IDP use cases. Previously he led AI & Robotics teams and designed robotic hardware and embedded systems, blending electromechanical design with applied ML. Jorge is an active full‑stack contributor to the open-source Continue IDE, integrating SambaNova cloud models and tool-calling to bridge model providers with developer tooling. Based in Bogotá, he combines hands‑on engineering, team leadership, and product-focused delivery across CV, NLP, and robotics. An uncommon strength is his ability to translate robotic system design constraints into scalable ML workflows for real-world automation.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechatronics Enginner, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechatronics Enginner at Universidad Nacional de Colombia
English, Spanish, Italian
Github Skills (11)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
continuedev/continue
Feb 2025 - Sep 2025
open-source coding agent
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 4 PRs, 4 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Jorge primarily contributed to integrating SambaNova cloud AI models within the Continue IDE extension. They added support for SambaNova models, including updating model lists and integrating tool calling functionality. Furthermore, they made modifications to the UI and backend configurations to accommodate SambaNova as a model provider, reflecting both frontend and backend code changes. These changes improved the usability and integration of SambaNova's AI models within the Continue ecosystem.
developer-toolsaiagentcli
jhpiedrahitao/ai-starter-kit
Jan 2024 - Apr 2024
Contributions:179 pushes, 22 branches in 3 months
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