Ben Orozco - Cover Letter

Dear hiring team,

I build engineering organizations without losing touch with how software is designed, shipped, and operated. Across VP of Engineering and CTO roles, I have led products from early stage through high-growth scale while remaining close to architecture, delivery, product decisions, and critical technical work.

At Apptegy, I helped hire, organize, and lead a distributed organization of 140+ engineers through organizational change, manager development, performance management, and new planning and delivery systems. I also drove architecture simplification and led practical AI adoption that increased productivity by 10% and reduced code-review time by 60%. At Trivelta, I now lead three Backoffice teams and a 10-person group while retaining fractional technical ownership of ClickHouse, MCP, and EKS initiatives.

My value is the combination of organizational leadership and technical judgment: building teams, coaching managers and engineers, aligning roadmaps with business priorities, setting architecture direction, and stepping into systems or code when direct involvement improves the outcome. I am most effective in roles that span strategy and execution rather than separating them.

I would welcome a conversation about how that combination could help your organization scale its products, engineering systems, and people.

Best regards,

Ben Orozco