Ben Orozco

Software Engineering Lead - Full Stack Developer

Monterrey, MX 🇲🇽

blog.benoror.com

VP Eng & CTO of SaaS startups in U.S. & LatAm. Product-minded Software engineer specialized in leading technical teams and full stack development. Passionate on building scalable products with a strong focus on user experience. Proven track record building, growing and mentoring engineering teams with a people-first mindset and deep sense of ownership, leveraging people & technology to tackle real-world problems. Looking for new big challenges in the intersection of B2B software, AI & Internet tech.

Experience

Apptegy — apptegy.com

Remote

Little Rock, AR 🇺🇸

2020 - Present (5yr)

Industry-leading EdTech SaaS company with 5,000+ school districts in the US & Canada and 10MM+ of active users.

VP of Engineering

Monterrey, MX 🇲🇽

Apr 2021 - Present

Help hiring, forming & leading a team of 120+ Engineers on both sides of the border by building a high-performance yet thoughtful engineering culture. Enabler for growth & learning, facilitating continuous improvement and seek of excellence.
Participated in organizational restructuring when transitioning to a mature scale-up company towards Series-C 100MM+ ARR, focusing on strategy, planning, and execution of established processes and systems.
Lead AI enablement projects across the Engineering organization, advocating adoption & best practices for tools such as Cursor, Claude, CodeRabbit, Gemini, etc. which lead to a 10% increase in productivity and 60% reduction in code review time.

LeadershipManagementHiringMentoringAgileArchitecture

Lead Software Engineer

Monterrey, MX 🇲🇽

Mar 2020 - Abr 2021

Hands-on development of Thrillshare platform and APIs mainly in Ruby on Rails, supporting Vue.js & Mobile (iOS & Android) clients.
Advocate best design, architecture, coding practices, peer reviewing & unit testing across the Engineering organization
Developed greenfield Ruby on Rails outpost services following SOA (service-oriented architecture):
- Auth: With a constant inflow of 1,000's of new users, implemented an AuthN/Z identity provider based on OAuth2 & OpenID Connect standards to support SSO (Single Sign-on) and User Management across existing and newer Apptegy's products
- Alerts: Due to a spike in usage of our alerting services, from 10's to 1,000's of notifications per minute, we required to scale it up by implementing a Multi-channel (SMS/Voice/TTS/Push), multi-provider (Twilio, Sendgrid, Facebook, Twitter) & multi-language relay service for school district notifications
Supporting Micro-services built with Ruby, Roda micro-framework & Sidekiq: Analytics, Data Management, Translations, Learning Management System.
DevOps, CI/CD and release managment deploying in AWS: EC2, ELB, EKS, RDS, S3 clusters using Capistrano & Kubernetes
Scrum master working with Product team following Agile methodologies.
Interview backend & full-stack candidates while onboarding new hires.

Technical LeadershipAgileSystem DesignArchitectureCode ReviewUnit Testing

Brokerlit — brokerlit.com

Monterrey, MX 🇲🇽

2023 - Present

Real Estate SaaS providing an MLS, CMS & CRM platform for brokers to manage their properties and inbound leads generation.

Technical Co-Founder

Hands-on development of the platform in Ruby on Rails & Next.js
DevOps infrastructure based on Fly.io k8s service & Vercel serverless hosting

BaseQL — baseql.com

Miami, FL 🇺🇸

2020 - 2024

GraphQL access point for your Cloud data (Airtable & Google Sheets).

Founder

Hands-on full-stack Javascript development with Node.js, Next.js & Tailwind CSS.
DevOps infrastructure based on AWS EBS & MongoDB

HealthTree — healthtree.org

Salt Lake City, UT 🇺🇸

Jan 2019 - Mar 2020

Healthcare platform for cancer patients, their families and caregivers, with the mission of accelerating the finding of a cure

CTO

Put together development team and processes for backend APIs in Ruby on Rails & , data pipelines & frontend clients by hands-on programming, code reviewing & testing.
Automated products lifecycle via DevOps & Continuous Integration/Delivery pipelines.
Increased customer feedback awareness and success metrics by creating support & analytics infrastructure in: Metabase Sentry Intercom
Created a product development pipeline from scratch to priotitize and measure performance using Agile Kanban methodology in Trello
Decreased bugs and improved overall quality via technical leadership & mentoring to achieve continuous improvement as a team
Defined a Technology Strategy and Software Architecture aligned with product vision
Recruited and retained top talent in a competitive U.S. market

Ecaresoft — ecaresoft.com

Austin, TX 🇺🇸

2016 - 2019

EHR & HIS systems for hospitals and clinics in Latin America and Middle East.

CTO

Monterrey, MX 🇲🇽

Jan 2018 - Jan 2019

Technology strategy and software architecture
- Succesfully launched internationalization for new markets via APIs, Microservices and serverless Lambda functions using.
- Achieved high availability and resilience cloud architecture by relying on DevOps, elastic infrastructure, containerization, automated testing and CI/CD pipelines for continuous quality and delivery with.
Product development and operations
- Improved roadmap priorization and improved performance measurement of dev teams by adopting SCRUM & Kanban Agile software development methodologies
- Increased customer feedback awareness and success metrics by creating support & analytics infrastructure in: Metabase Sentry Intercom
- Achieved continuous improvement via OKRs, Performance Reviews and One-on-ones
- Recruited and succesfully retained top talent that added value to the company

CTO — Nimbo — Nimbo / nimbo-x.com

Monterrey, MX 🇲🇽

Feb 2016 - Jan 2019

Established development processes for coding, reviewing & testing backend APIs and frontend clients
Defined Software Architecture and launched fault-tolerant APIs and microservices in Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis and Sidekiq for background processing
- Drugs interactions Java service based on Wolters Kluwer's Medi-Span®
- Machine Learning prediction & classification service based on Python & Tensorflow
- Full-text search service based on Apache Solr
Implemented DevOps and continuous integration/delivery to production
Reached balance between quality & speed by improving recruiting, management & coaching of development team
Achieved Lean product development by relying on Kanban methodology

Tech Lead — Nebula — Nebula / usenebula.com

Monterrey, MX 🇲🇽

Oct 2017 - Jul 2018

Full-stack development using Elixir/Phoenix for Backend and Ember.js for Frontend
Domain-driven Design architecture using Bounded Contexts
DevOps infrastructure using Docker containers on AWS: Elastic Beanstalk`

Panax — panax.io

San Luis Potosi, MX 🇲🇽

2014 - 2016

Low-code tool for building business applications.

Full Stack Developer

: Launched an MVP of No-Code tool for internal business applications by defining a Client-server architecture using: `Node.js / Express SQL Server Angular.js