Summary
Spency Ortega is a software engineer with nine years of experience building scalable, secure systems across cloud and high-performance computing environments. Currently at Uber, he develops core features for the Uber Freight Carrier app using Go, protobuf/thrift, Kafka, and MySQL, and previously implemented Oracle Cloud's Secrets Management Service in Java. His background includes research roles at national labs where he applied machine learning and differential privacy to supercomputer datasets and benchmarked HPC fault tolerance—skills that inform his pragmatic approach to reliability and security. Based in San Francisco, he blends production engineering with research rigor from an MS in High Performance Computing and a BS in Software Engineering, and is comfortable moving between distributed systems, data protection, and performance-sensitive code.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science High Performance Computing and Simulation, MS Computer Science High Performance Computing and Simulation at University of Southern California
Associate’s Degree Natural Science and Social Science, Associate’s Degree Natural Science and Social Science at Pasadena City College
BS Computer Science Software Engineering, BS Computer Science Software Engineering at California State University, Monterey Bay