Santiago Ordoñez
Co-Founder, CEO at Selenium
Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina
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Top SchoolSantiago Ordoñez is an entrepreneurial software leader with 17 years of experience building and scaling product-led startups and cloud services across Silicon Valley and Argentina. As co-founder and CEO of Momentum and a former founding engineer and engineering director at Sauce Labs, he blends hands-on full-stack engineering with strategic leadership to deliver revenue-driving automation for sales and reliable backend infrastructure. He is a long-time contributor and committer to Selenium and Appium, authoring UI features, test infrastructure improvements, and documentation that supported large open-source automation ecosystems. Comfortable in high-uncertainty environments, he prioritizes measurable impact, rapid iteration, and team culture—often pushing teams to “move fast and learn.” Based in Rosario but shaped by over a decade in San Francisco, he pairs startup grit with formal training from Stanford’s Business Scaling Program. Colleagues describe him as a sociable, early-rising operator who turns complex technical challenges into productized workflows.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Business Scaling Program Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Business Scaling Program Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessHigh School Diploma Business/Commerce General, High School Diploma Business/Commerce General at Colegio Salesiano San JoseIngeniero en Sistemas de Información sistemas, Ingeniero en Sistemas de Información sistemas at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (31)
content-management-system10
javascript10
ios10
selenium10
python10
selenium-ide10
remote-debugging10
web-automation10
content-management10
appium10
documentation10
test-automation10
self-organization10
testing9
git9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
SeleniumHQ/www.seleniumhq.org
Apr 2010 - Sep 2015
Old Selenium website and docs (deprecated)
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:19 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Santiago primarily focused on updating and reorganizing the documentation for the Selenium project. The commits involved modifying existing documentation files, updating links, correcting wording, and improving the overall structure and accessibility of the information. The user's contributions also included adding new content, like a page for Selenium events, and reorganizing existing content to improve usability for users.
selenium
appium/appium
Jan 2013 - Mar 2013
Cross-platform automation framework for all kinds of apps, built on top of the W3C WebDriver protocol
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:60 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Santiago primarily contributed to the Appium project by implementing core features related to web view interaction within the iOS platform. Their work includes adding support for findElement/s, getting element size, getting the source of a web view, and web view title retrieval. They also worked on improving the error handling for the remote debugger and performed refactoring.
test-automationwindowsappiumw3c-webdriverframework
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