Summary
Sofia Ortega is a software engineer at American Airlines with eight years of hands-on experience building full-stack web applications and cloud-backed services. A Texas A&M computer engineering graduate, she has shipped production features at startups and enterprises—ranging from a real-time bird-species recognition pipeline on Google Cloud to high-traffic UI improvements used by thousands daily. She’s skilled in React, Node.js, TypeScript, C++, and cloud platforms, and has a track record of improving performance (99.95% runtime gains) and user engagement through pragmatic engineering. As a student leader she scaled the largest college coding club in the U.S., driving $10K+ in sponsorships and tripling workshop attendance with interactive formats. Known for proactive teaching—creating a review video series with 4,000+ views and transforming lectures into Q&A sessions—she blends technical depth with clear communication and a knack for growing teams and products.
7 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University
Spanish