Ben Orozco - Cover Letter for Fleetio Leverage

Dear Fleetio hiring team,

The Leverage role immediately stood out to me because it sits at an intersection I care deeply about: internal developer effectiveness, product-minded tooling, and AI systems that become genuinely useful once they are connected to the right company context. I especially like that this is not a blank-slate “AI initiative,” but a chance to build the enterprise capabilities that help an existing ecosystem of internal tools scale with better identity, governance, and structured access to knowledge.

Over the past 10 months, I have built a strong muscle around agentic workflows and AI-assisted engineering, learning directly where the tooling creates real leverage and where it can introduce noise, slop, or avoidable tech debt if not grounded in the right systems and practices. My background is a strong fit for that kind of work. At Apptegy, I led AI enablement efforts across engineering that improved productivity by 10% and reduced code review time by 60%, while also working on platform architecture, delivery quality, and systems at meaningful scale. Earlier there, I led platform and infrastructure work that included building an OAuth2 / OpenID Connect identity layer for SSO and user management, along with services for alerts, ETL, translation, and other integration-heavy workflows. Across BaseQL, Brokerlit, and Ecaresoft, I have repeatedly worked on APIs, structured access layers, microservices, internal process design, and full-stack product delivery in ambiguous environments.

What I would bring to Fleetio is a technical generalist profile with strong backend depth, full-stack range, and a product-first mindset for internal tools. I like talking to users before over-designing systems, and I care a lot about adoption, not just shipping. That makes the Leverage mandate especially compelling: the work is not only to build connectors and context layers, but to create leverage that other teams across engineering, product, design, and operations will actually use.

I’m also genuinely aligned with the engineering philosophy Fleetio describes around momentum, ownership, product focus, knowledge, and defaulting to action. That combination matches how I like to work. And since careful reading matters here too: coffee. I’d welcome the opportunity to talk further about how I could help shape the Leverage team as its founding engineer.

Best regards,

Ben Orozco