Mauricio Ortiz, Developer in Dallas, TX, United States
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Mauricio Ortiz

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Location
Dallas, TX, United States
Toptal Member Since
August 4, 2022

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

Level III Capital
Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Rancher, Cloudflare, HashiCorp...
Goldman Sachs
Python, GitLab CI/CD, Cloudflare, Linux, Load Balancers...
Goldman Sachs
Java, MongoDB, Spring, React, Redux, Apache Kafka, Jenkins

Experience

Availability

Part-time

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

2021 - PRESENT
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.
Technologies: Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Rancher, Cloudflare, HashiCorp, Streaming, GraphQL, Microservices, GitOps, Python, Data Pipelines, Azure, Containers, Apache Beam, Data Science, Blockchain, Amazon Web Services (AWS), CI/CD Pipelines, Cloud, Terraform, PostgreSQL, Git, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Ray, Networking, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Amazon EC2, AWS DevOps, JW Player

DevOps Engineer

2020 - 2021
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.
Technologies: Python, GitLab CI/CD, Cloudflare, Linux, Load Balancers, Amazon Web Services (AWS), DevOps, CI/CD Pipelines, Cloud, Terraform, Splunk, Networking, SSH, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), AWS DevOps

Software Engineer

2019 - 2019
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.
Technologies: Java, MongoDB, Spring, React, Redux, Apache Kafka, Jenkins

Insights on Liquidity Dynamics

Created a data analysis report where we monitored the limit order book on multiple exchanges to determine the slippage of different-sized orders for various cryptocurrencies. I used the results to draw insight into the nature of cryptocurrency markets.

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

2017 - 2019

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

University of Texas Rio Grande Valley - Edinburg, TX

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