Jose Cortinas
Senior Software Engineer at Huntress
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarJose Cortinas is a Senior Software Engineer and U.S. Air Force veteran with 16 years of experience building scalable web and mobile systems across startups and large enterprises. He has led zero-downtime, billion-event migrations and re-architected real-time billing and GraphQL APIs at GitHub, while also shaping HIPAA-compliant healthcare APIs and high-volume Rails platforms. Comfortable across the stack—from Rails and React/TypeScript front ends to Go and Rust services—he blends systems thinking with hands-on implementation and mentoring. Recently he’s focused on AI integrations (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini) and workflow automation with n8n, bringing ML-driven capabilities into production services. An advocate for accessibility, he has contributed ARIA improvements to the popular GitHub Desktop repo, reflecting a pragmatic commitment to usability as well as scale. Based in San Antonio, he combines operational rigor from the military with product-minded engineering leadership.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Spanish
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Github Skills (16)
accessibility10
acessibility10
ria10
typescript10
javascript10
user-interface10
typescripts10
wai-aria10
react10
accessibilityservice10
typescript-types10
front-end-development9
ui-design9
uid9
github-desktop9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
desktop/desktop
Jul 2023 - Mar 2024
Focus on what matters instead of fighting with Git.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:21 reviews, 29 PRs, 60 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Jose primarily focused on enhancing the accessibility of the application's user interface. They implemented ARIA roles and labeledby attributes across several React components, including those for branch management, filter lists, and pull request listings. Additionally, the user improved the UI by converting links to buttons for better focus control. Their work demonstrates a commitment to making the application more usable and accessible to a wider audience.
fightingelectronmattersgithub-desktoptypescript
jacortinas/graphql-api-presentation
Mar 2017 - Apr 2021
The presentation and code examples used for a talk at the SA Ruby Coders meetup on March 7, 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 1 month
ruby-on-railsmarchpresentationrailsruby
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