Ben Orozco
VP Eng & CTO of SaaS startups in U.S. & LatAm. Software engineer specialized in leading technical teams and full stack development and. Passionate about building end-to-end & customer-driven software products, mentoring & growing engineering teams, and leveraging technology to tackle real-world challenges.
Experience
Apptegy — apptegy.com
EdTech startup with 3,000+ school districts in the US.
Lead Software Engineer
- Advocate best design, architecture, coding practices, peer reviewing & unit testing across the Engineering organization
- Scrum master working with Product team following Agile methodologies.
- Interview backend & full-stack candidates while onboarding 10's of new hires.
- Hands-on development of Thrillshare platform and APIs mainly in Ruby on Rails, supporting Vue.js & Mobile (iOS & Android) clients.
- Supporting Micro-services built with Ruby, Roda micro-framework & Sidekiq: Analytics, Data Management, Translations, Learning Management System.
- Developed greenfield Ruby on Rails outpost services following SOA (service-oriented architecture):
- Auth: AuthN/Z identity provider based on OAuth2 & OpenID Connect standards to support SSO (Single Sign-on) and User Management across all Apptegy's products
- Alerts: Multi-channel (SMS/Voice/TTS/Push), multi-provider (Twilio, Sendgrid, Facebook, Twitter) & multi-language relay service for school district notifications
- DevOps, CI/CD and release managment deploying in AWS: EC2, ELB, EKS, RDS, S3 clusters using Capistrano & Kubernetes
HealthTree — healthtree.org
Healthcare platform for cancer patients, their families and caregivers, with the mission of accelerating the finding of a cure
CTO
Ecaresoft — ecaresoft.com
EHR & HIS systems for hospitals and clinics in Latin America and Middle East.
Panax — panax.io
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.jsOperIT — servicesinit.com
IT nearshoring consultancy services for U.S. companies
Software Consultant
: Define and execute ETL, Analytics and Business Intelligence processes and maintenance of existing softwareSAP — sap.com
World's largest company of ERP software
Software Engineering Intern
: Test-driven development for Supportability & SaaS enterprise product lines using JavaScript and JasmineCotizaHoy — cotizahoy.com
B2B startup for car manufacturing industry
Technical Co-Founder
: Launched SaaS/Marketplace developed in Ruby on Rails PostgreSQL HerokuNIC Mexico — nicmexico.mx
NIC organization for .mx top-level domains
Software Development Intern
: Developed internal and customer apps in PHP Java and PL/SQLEducation
🗓 Oct 2012 - Feb 2014
University of Applied Sciences Offenburg
🗓 Aug 2005 - Dec 2009
Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education