Roberto Ortega
Staff Engineer at Affirm
Greater Las Palmas Metropolitan Area Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolRoberto Ortega is a Staff Engineer with over 15 years building end-to-end systems across healthcare, e-commerce, tourism, and scientific research, now shaping platform-level work at Affirm. He combines deep hands-on expertise in backend and frontend development, mobile, cloud infrastructure, and AI integrations—working regularly with Java, Kotlin, Python, Elixir, Rust, JavaScript, React/Sveltesse, and AWS/Kubernetes. His career spans embedded IoT and hardware-integrated products to AI-powered search and vector-database pipelines, demonstrating an unusual breadth from RFIC design to modern ML-driven services. Roberto blends individual contributor output with mentorship and technical leadership, improving team practices and CI/CD reliability (including a library for concurrent Android testing). Based in Gran Canaria, he brings a research-rooted engineering mindset (PhD background) to pragmatic product delivery, often favoring technically challenging projects that deliver measurable operational impact.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate in Chemistry, Graduate in Chemistry at Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia - U.N.E.D.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Github Skills (120)
saga-pattern10
serverless10
microservices10
cloud-native10
cqrs10
azure10
typescript10
trend10
event-sourcing10
nodejs10
event-driven10
aws10
graphql10
openwhisk9
intellisense9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
rdiaz82/piBeer
Apr 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:10 PRs, 29 pushes, 16 branches in 5 months
raspberry-picontrollerraspberryfermentationraspberrypi
rdiaz82/mqttSqlLite
Oct 2019 - May 2020
A simple sqlite based logger for mqtt
Contributions:2 commits, 2 PRs, 25 pushes in 6 months
loggersqlitemqtt
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