Mauricio Ortiz
Verified Expert in Engineering
Cloudflare Developer
Mauricio is currently CTO and Co-CIO at Level III Capital, a quantitative digital asset hedge fund. He has experience developing cloud infrastructure, automated trading systems, APIs, and large-scale data analysis software. Before Level III Capital, Mauricio was a DevOps and Software Engineer at Goldman Sachs, where he formed part of the critical infrastructure team for Marcus. This large, digital consumer bank also manages the Apple Card behind the scenes.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Amazon Web Services (AWS), GitLab CI/CD, Cloudflare, Kubernetes, Python, Docker, DevOps, Microservices
The most amazing...
...project I've started is Level III Capital. Creating an investment strategy and building an automated trading system from scratch is a phenomenal feat.
Work Experience
CTO | Co-CIO
Level III Capital
- Managed a quantitative crypto hedge fund's investment strategy and led the design and implementation of the firm's automated trading systems.
- Created and leveraged internal software to facilitate testing, visualization, and optimization of quantitative strategies used with investor capital, fund performance, and blockchain data analysis.
- Led the development of cloud infrastructure that uses a GitOps methodology for CI/CD and relies on a Zero Trust architecture.
- Designed and developed multiple microservices, stream-based applications, and data pipelines to support a fully automated investment strategy.
DevOps Engineer
Goldman Sachs
- Handled front-facing critical infrastructure for a consumer bank with four million customers, $50 billion in loans, and seven billion in deposits.
- Managed the entire bank's content delivery networks (CDN) functionality via Cloudflare.
- Maintained and upgraded the main Apache configuration that handles requests for over 100 microservices.
- Led coordination between multiple teams to reduce Cloudflare log ingestion to Splunk from 15 minutes to 30 seconds by leveraging AWS Lambda Functions and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) peering.
- Leveraged Terraform and GitLab CI/CD pipelines to allow developer leads to clear the website's cache when deploying microservices.
- Mentored interns to ease integration with our team's functionality and ensured they had the company's best experience.
Software Engineer
Goldman Sachs
- Developed a dashboard in React/Redux for call center agents at Marcus that allowed them to compete with each other when attempting to enroll customers in loan assistance programs.
- Created a back-end microservice in Java Spring Boot that kept track of loan payments initiated by call center agents. The payment status was tracked in real-time via Kafka with third-party providers.
- Provisioned environments and MongoDB clusters for microservices.
Experience
Insights on Liquidity Dynamics
Skillset
Languages
Python, SQL, GraphQL, Java
Libraries/APIs
Pandas, React
Tools
Apache Beam, Git, GitLab CI/CD, HashiCorp, Terraform, Splunk, Jenkins, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), JW Player
Paradigms
Data Science, Microservices, Azure DevOps, DevOps
Platforms
Linux, Docker, Blockchain, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon EC2, Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Rancher, Azure, Apache Kafka
Storage
Data Pipelines, MongoDB, PostgreSQL
Other
Cloudflare, Containers, Cloud, Ray, AWS DevOps, Load Balancers, Streaming, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD Pipelines, Networking, SSH
Frameworks
Spring, Redux
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley - Edinburg, TX
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