I'm Basti Ortiz.

Web developer. Open-source contributor. Learner. Writer. Mentor. Leader.

AI Product Engineer

  • Lead engineer behind speeding up by 600x the CourseCast ↗ course assignment simulator of CourseMatch ↗ for the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
  • Built the internal LLM-powered automation for hedge fund analysts that processes and summarizes 5,000+ emails every day within 5 minutes

Full-Stack Engineer

  • Core team member building the Verdn platform: a pledge-tracking system that quantifies and visualizes the impact of sales/actions towards causes
  • Processed a million requests, cron jobs, and webhook events per day from Shopify, Stripe, OpenAI, and more
  • Key contributor to CharityOS, streamlining corporate backing for charities with marketing tools and AI-powered lookalike search engines.
  • Improved dev server startup times from 1-2 minutes to within 10 seconds, migrated to a monorepo with Turborepo + Vercel Remote Caching (reducing CI times to 10% of original), and implemented preview deployment infrastructure for enhanced PR review productivity

Rust for Gaming: Highly Concurrent Game Servers with the Actor Model

Director for Engineering

  • Primary technical consultant for all software projects including websites, analytics dashboards, alternative housing platforms, and department-level automations (e.g., DRAP ↗)
  • Hosted workshops and courses for upskilling student developers: Dev Training Program (9 modules, 150 pages, 100+ participants), DevCamp 2024 (12 modules, 40 pages, full-stack with SvelteKit and MongoDB), Git Workshop for the entire Department of Computer Science, and InnovCamp 2024 on web performance optimization

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

  • Graduated Summa Cum Laude
  • University Scholar for Academic Years 2020-2024
  • Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Merit Scholar
  • Researcher at the Department of Computer Science - Networks and Distributed Systems Group.
  • Relevant coursework: Algorithms, Data Structures, Database Systems, Operating Systems, Computer Networking, Software Engineering, Computer Security, AI/ML, Compiler Theory, Formal Verification Systems, and Blockchain Technologies.

Languages

RustGoTypeScriptJavaScriptHTMLCSSPythonJavaPHPC++CSolidity

Libraries & Frameworks

SvelteReactSolidJSTailwind CSSTokioHyperEspressifNext.jsExpressElectronCapacitorFlaskDjangoFastAPIHugging FaceDiscord.jsHardhatAnchor

Technologies

GitDockerCMakeDenoNode.jsAndroidPostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBSolanaEthereumArbitrumViteTurbo