Summary
Samantha Ortiz is a Senior Technical Product Manager and engineering leader with nine years of experience building cloud-native, full-stack platforms and automation tooling across HR tech and analytics. Currently leading automations at Quid while also serving as Director of Engineering at Rival IQ, she blends hands-on Node.js/TypeScript development and AWS/Kubernetes operations with product strategy and delivery. At Lifion by ADP she led platform teams to ship metadata-driven ETL pipelines and a fully self-service data load tool that eliminated manual onboarding work. Her background spans software engineering, people leadership, and earlier roles in marketing and operations—bringing uncommon cross-functional fluency to tech and go-to-market challenges. A Hack Reactor alum with foundations in psychology and ecology, she pairs analytical rigor with a practical instinct for building reliable, scalable systems.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bootcamp Prep, Bootcamp Prep at App Academy
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Psychology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Psychology at New College of Florida
Advanced Software Engineering Immersive, Advanced Software Engineering Immersive at Hack Reactor
Summer College, Summer College at Cornell University
Coral Reef Ecology, Coral Reef Ecology at Institute for Tropical Ecology and Conservation