Josue Ortega
Software Engineer at Zapier
Guatemala
Summary
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Top SchoolJosue Ortega is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience designing and shipping data-intensive applications, automation tools, and developer operations across Python, Go, Java, Node.js and C/C++. Currently at Zapier and an official Debian Developer, he maintains and packages core Debian software and advocates for open source quality. He has led backend and distributed serverless efforts—building conversational commerce platforms, migration tooling that moved millions of records, and high-throughput data pipelines using Kafka, RabbitMQ and MongoDB. A pragmatic engineer, he combines low-level systems experience with product-focused APIs (GraphQL, TypeScript) and hands-on DevOps (Docker, AWS Lambdas). His open-source contributions include UX and robustness improvements to popular terminal tools like rtv, showing attention to end-user workflows as well as backend scale. Based in Guatemala, he brings a rare mix of packaging expertise, production-scale distributed systems design, and practical automation.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Systems Engineering, Systems Engineering at Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala
Spanish, English
Github Skills (9)
clipboardjs10
clipboard-manager10
clipboard10
clip10
python10
documentation8
testing7
github-ci3
githubaction-workflow3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
michael-lazar/rtv
Apr 2017 - Sep 2017
Browse Reddit from your terminal
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 10 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Josue primarily focused on enhancing the user experience and functionality of the Reddit terminal viewer (rtv). Their contributions include implementing features like copying submission links to the clipboard, providing keyboard shortcuts for these actions, and improving the display of URLs. They also refactored the code by adding a custom clipboard implementation and updated the documentation. Furthermore, they fixed a crash and added a test for the new copy functionality.
terminalredditbrowsecli
noahfx/lobster
May 2017 - Oct 2020
Split audio files into tracks with a single command
Contributions:2 releases, 81 commits, 5 PRs in 3 years 5 months
splitsplit-audioaudioaudio-filesmusic
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