Summary
Orlando Valdez is a Staff Software Engineer based in Charlotte with 11 years of experience delivering architecture-led solutions across finance, retail, and consumer services. He combines hands-on development with leadership, having driven greenfield and brownfield projects, agile transformations, and migrations at companies like Credit Karma, Red Ventures, and Lowe’s. Known for building and coaching teams, he also scales partnerships between engineering and business to ensure measurable product and organizational outcomes. His background includes coordinating distributed teams on complex integrations and metadata migrations for major banks early in his career, giving him strong cross-functional stakeholder skills. Outside of work he co-leads the Charlotte Java User Group and balances a full-time parenting role with continued software craft, reflecting a practical, community-minded approach to technology and mentorship.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Systems Administrator Engineer, Computer Systems, Systems Administrator Engineer, Computer Systems at Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León
English, Spanish