Summary
Robert Ortiz is a seasoned Software Developer III based in Austin with 10 years of hands-on experience designing and maintaining full-stack web and telephony systems. Currently at Rackspace, he maintains a soft-phone service and has a history of augmenting APIs, building CI-driven automation, and modernizing legacy stacks across Ruby on Rails, Java, Docker, and Ansible. He also runs Dragonwrench Linux Consulting, delivering API-first, mobile‑first solutions, devops and custom integrations for clients, demonstrating entrepreneurial initiative alongside enterprise experience. Known for pragmatic problem solving, he builds tools that bridge QA and development—such as automation to record client-side tests—and has repeatedly migrated and stabilized complex datacenter and cloud architectures. His background includes lead architect and consulting roles where he established foundations for scalable, SEO-aware platforms and unified mobile backends.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS, COSC, BS, COSC at University of Houston
HSPVA
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Houston-Downtown