Raúl Ortega
Principal Product Engineer at Esri
Almeria, Andalusia, Spain
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Top SchoolRaúl Ortega is a Principal Product Engineer with 12 years’ experience focused on developer experience and geospatial developer tooling at Esri, where he improves documentation, APIs and SDKs that power a platform spanning 25+ libraries. He combines product instincts, frontend craftsmanship and developer advocacy—having led developer and startup programs at Esri España and previously founded multiple geo-focused startups. Raúl teaches and mentors widely (university courses and master programs) and coordinates volunteer geo communities, reflecting a commitment to growing the ecosystem beyond product teams. His background in computer science, an MBA and international masters study informs a pragmatic mix of technical depth and business strategy. Based in Almería, he’s known for helping devs “with geo stuff” and for turning complex spatial APIs into approachable, well-documented experiences. An operator who still ships code, he bridges hands-on engineering, product management and community leadership.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Sciences Engineer Engineering informatics, Computer Sciences Engineer Engineering informatics at Universidad de GranadaMaster Computer Sciences, Master Computer Sciences at University of Bergen (UiB)Master Computer Sciences, Master Computer Sciences at University of AmsterdamPsychology of advertising marketing and consumption Psychology, Psychology of advertising marketing and consumption Psychology at Universidad de Granada, PsicologíaMaster of Business Administration (MBA) Business Administration and Management General, Master of Business Administration (MBA) Business Administration and Management General at EOI Escuela de Negocios
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (200)
devrel10
custom-widgets10
data-management10
datasets10
rest-api10
web-development10
javascript10
gulp10
arcgis10
arcgis-online10
visual-studio-extension10
rest10
geocoding10
html10
feature-service10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
hhkaos/arcgis-js-vscode-snippets
Jun 2021 - Oct 2024
Collection of Visual Studio Code snippets for common code patterns.
Contributions:30 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 4 months
visual-studio-code
EsriDevEvents/.github
Jan 2023 - Jun 2025
Public organization profile repository. Include how to contribute, conventions, template files, ...
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 17 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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