Summary
Sebastián Ortega is a senior data engineer with 12 years of professional experience and nine years of focused Scala development, currently building data infrastructure at Datadog from Madrid. He has led data platform and Kafka-centric event-bus initiatives at Letgo, designed large-scale schema governance for 600+ domain events, and driven search and ML-serving improvements through concurrency and caching. A functional programming enthusiast, Sebastián combines strong systems design with practical tooling and training to enable cross-team adoption of robust data practices. Outside of work he hosts a Spanish software podcast, publishes technical writing, and experiments with Bayesian agents in open-source side projects, reflecting a blend of communication skills and research curiosity.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Spanish, English