Oliver Ortlieb
Co-Founder & CTO at Ultra
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOliver Ortlieb is a serial startup CTO and engineer with 11 years of experience building hardware-software products and digital factories from the ground up. He’s co-founded multiple companies—most recently Ultra—and previously led engineering at Y Combinator-backed ventures including Voodoo Manufacturing and Layer By Layer, combining production-scale 3D printing operations with consumer-facing software. Comfortable spanning full-stack systems, embedded tooling, and production pipelines, he has shipped end-to-end solutions like 3D scanning apps, statistical models for custom manufacturing, and factory GUIs. Based in New York, he brings a pragmatic founder’s mindset to technical leadership and enjoys solving engineering problems where software meets physical products. Notably, he’s built both the software ecosystems and the physical factories needed to turn unique SKUs into scalable manufacturing.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Layer By Layer (S13) & Voodoo Manufacturing (W17), Layer By Layer (S13) & Voodoo Manufacturing (W17) at Y CombinatorBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Harvey Mudd College
Spanish
Stackoverflow
31reputation
1kreached
2answers
2questions
Github Skills (91)
mesh10
geometry10
api9
vtk9
relay8
python8
apollo-client8
elixir8
triangular8
replication8
absinthe8
cdc8
postgresql7
graphiql7
debezium7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
oortlieb/voodoo-api
Jun 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:13 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
oortlieb/nfl_pbp_sql
Oct 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:4 PRs, 32 pushes, 6 branches in 15 days
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