Ricardo Ortega
AI Engineering Apprentice at Flatiron School
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRicardo Ortega is an adaptable full-stack software developer and AI Engineering apprentice based in Denver with a decade of professional experience and 5+ years delivering end-to-end web and mobile solutions. He has built and maintained CRM systems for senior living using C#, ASP.NET, MS SQL, and Vue, while also contributing to mobile Kotlin development and DevOps workflows with Azure and Jira. A life-long learner with dual Flatiron School credentials in Web Development and AI Engineering, he’s transitioning from practical product engineering toward applied AI. His background teaching bilingual adults and a solo year-long backpacking journey across South America give him strong communication skills, cultural empathy, and resilience that inform his collaborative approach. Comfortable across databases, back-end services, and front-end UX, he pairs pragmatic engineering with curiosity for emerging ML/AI patterns.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
AI Engineering Immersive (Experience Developer Track), AI Engineering Immersive (Experience Developer Track) at Flatiron SchoolBachelor's degree Psychology / Modern Languages, Bachelor's degree Psychology / Modern Languages at Metropolitan State University of Denver
Spanish, Italian, Japanese, English
Github Skills (8)
ruby4
2d-game4
game-development4
2d3
capstone2
typescript1
rails1
semantic1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rj-ortega/wolves
Jun 2019 - Oct 2020
2D Game using Ruby
Contributions:15 commits, 4 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 4 months
2d-gamegameruby2dgame-development
rj-ortega/game-lobby
Aug 2019 - Feb 2022
Frontend for 5 day project using React and Javascript
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
reactjavascriptdayfrontendreactjs
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