Ben Orozco

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Hands-on Engineering Leader. Tech Lead, VPE & CTO with 15+ years building and scaling AI-enabled products and engineering teams across the US & LatAm.
Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
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  • Trivelta
    Platform Technical Lead
    Trivelta
    Jan 2026 - Current (7 months)
    Lead Software Engineer (Platform Team Lead) • Jan 2026 – Present • Monterrey, MX Technical lead for the PAM (player account management) Platform team at a B2B iGaming technology company, shipping operator-facing admin tooling and analytics across legacy and greenfield platforms while raising engineering quality across a distributed team. • Architecting and hands-on building both the existing and new greenfield PAM admin backend in FastAPI/Python with DDD (Domain-driven design) bounded contexts and typed Pydantic contracts; deployed on AWS serverless (Lambda, DynamoDB, Athena, OpenSearch, Cognito, Amplify, EventBridge) and paired with a React admin UI. • Improved engineering quality and delivery speed by pushing architecture/design reviews,
  • Brokerlit
    Technical Co-Founder
    Brokerlit
    Sep 2023 - Current (2 years 11 months)
    Real Estate SaaS providing MLS, CMS & CRM for brokers. - Full-Stack Development: Designed and built full platform in Ruby on Rails & Next.js - DevOps: Built and managed a serverless and container-based infrastructure using Vercel and Fly.io, , optimizing for scale & cost efficiency
  • Apptegy
    VP of Engineering
    Apptegy
    Mar 2021 - Nov 2025 (4 years 9 months)
    Spearheaded engineering for a high-growth Series-B EdTech startup, successfully shipping and scaling a suite of SaaS products serving 6,000+ school districts & 10MM+ users. - Scaled and led engineering org from ~30 to 140+ engineers across the U.S. and Mexico. Built a high-performance, people-first culture, mentoring directors, managers & team leads, instituting feedback loops, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, excellence, and deep ownership, serving as an enabler for the team's growth and learning, and aligning delivery to roadmap & product vision - Championed the adoption of AI, driving 10% productivity gain and 60% faster time-to-merge (Cursor, Claude, CodeRabbit, Gemini) - Partnered with C-suite to execute scale-up strateg
  • BaseQL
    Founder
    BaseQL
    Mar 2020 - Apr 2024 (4 years 2 months)
    *Acquired @2024 Single GraphQL API for Airtable & Google Sheets - Bootstrapped SaaS from side-project → profitable exit during COVID - Developed the entire product full-stack using Node.js, Next.js, and Tailwind CSS, with an infrastructure based on AWS EBS and MongoDB
  • Apptegy
    Engineering Leader
    Apptegy
    Mar 2020 - Mar 2021 (1 year 1 month)
    - Led platform & application teams during rapid scale-up (500 → 2,000+ districts) - Advocated best practices in design, architecture, testing, and peer review across teams - Architected, hands-on coded, delivered, refactored & scaled critical greenfield SOA services in Ruby: - Auth: OAuth2/OpenID Connect SSO identity provider to manage thousands of new users for all Apptegy products - Alerts: Scaled to Multi-channel, multi-provider, multi-language notification relay service to handle thousands of alerts per minute for mass school communications - Among other projects I lead: Forms & surveys builder, ETL pipeline revamp, Translation service, Emails newsletters & marketing campaigns, Learning-management-system & Real-time horizontally-s
  • HealthTree
    CTO
    HealthTree
    Jan 2019 - Mar 2020 (1 year 3 months)
    Led the technology division for a healthcare platform dedicated to helping cancer patients find optimal treatment options - Assembled the development team from scratch and established agile processes from the ground up for backend APIs (Ruby on Rails), web/mobile apps (React) and data pipelines/analytics (Postgres, Metabase) - Successfully recruited and retained top engineering talent in a highly competitive U.S. market - Defined the end-to-end technology strategy and software architecture to align with the product vision and accelerate the company's mission - Decreased bugs and improved overall product quality by instituting technical leadership, mentorship, and a continuous improvement cycle - Automated delivery pipelines (Heroku, AWS, G
  • Ecaresoft Inc
    CTO
    Ecaresoft Inc
    Jan 2018 - Jan 2019 (1 year 1 month)
    Directed technology strategy, software development, and operations to launch a healthcare SaaS EHR & HIS platform into new markets in Latin America and the Middle East - Successfully launched in new international markets by architecting and delivering a strategy based on APIs, Microservices, and serverless functions using Elixir, Rails, Java & Node.js - Adopted DevOps paradigm to build resilient AWS cloud infra (ECS, ECR, Docker, GitLab CI) - Improved development team performance and product roadmap prioritization by adopting SCRUM & Kanban methodologies - Merged disparate product teams into a single, unified engineering culture; introduced OKRs & performance reviews. Worked closely with Product, Sales, and Support to achieve business goal
  • Ecaresoft Inc
    Tech Lead – Nebula
    Ecaresoft Inc
    Oct 2017 - Jul 2018 (10 months)
    - Built a greenfield Claims Management System from scratch - Hands on coding & architecture using Elixir/Phoenix, Ember.js, AWS
  • Nimbo Digital Patient Management Software
    CTO
    Nimbo Digital Patient Management Software
    Feb 2016 - Jan 2019 (3 years)
    - Scaled an EHR practice management application for LatAm physicians from MVP to product/market fit, achieving 1,000s of MAUs and increasing ARR 10x - Defined the software architecture & delivered mission-critical fault-tolerant APIs & services using Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Sidekiq & Solr. - AI/ML: Lead implementation of a machine learning service for prediction and classification using Python & Tensorflow - Build UI/UX Frontend applications using Ember.js & Electron - Established development, code review, and testing processes and improved team velocity through effective recruiting, management, and coaching - Instituted agile processes & DevOps for balanced speed & quality
  • Ecaresoft Inc
    CTO – Nimbo
    Ecaresoft Inc
    Feb 2016 - Jan 2019 (3 years)
    - Scaled an EHR practice management application for LatAm physicians from MVP to product/market fit, achieving 1,000s of MAUs and increasing ARR 10x - Defined the software architecture & delivered mission-critical fault-tolerant APIs & services using Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Sidekiq & Solr. - AI/ML: Lead implementation of a machine learning service for prediction and classification using Python & Tensorflow - Build UI/UX Frontend applications using Ember.js & Electron - Established development, code review, and testing processes and improved team velocity through effective recruiting, management, and coaching - Instituted agile processes & DevOps for balanced speed & quality
  • PanaxIT
    Full-stack Developer
    PanaxIT
    Sep 2014 - Feb 2016 (1 year 6 months)
    Developed a no-code tool for rapid development of internal business applications using Node.js, Angular & SQL Server
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    Software Consultant
    ServicesinIT Opera
    Apr 2014 - Oct 2014 (7 months)
    Worked as a contractor for BI, ETL & Analytics projects for US nearshore clients
  • SAP
    Software Development Intern
    SAP
    Sep 2013 - Feb 2014 (6 months)
    - Member of the supportability & internal tools team for SaaS enterprise product lines - Test-driven development of applications using JavaScript and Jasmine
  • Cotiza Hoy
    Technical Co-Founder
    Cotiza Hoy
    Mar 2010 - Aug 2013 (3 years 6 months)
    - B2B marketplace startup for car manufacturing industry - Launched out of college with a couple of co-founders - Developed in Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL & deployed on Heroku
  • NIC Mexico
    Software Development Intern
    NIC Mexico
    Jan 2008 - Dec 2008 (1 year)
    - NIC organization for .mx top-level domains - Developed internal and customer-facing applications in PHP, Java and PL/SQL
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  • Black Forest Business School
    Master of Business Administration - MBA, International Business Consulting (IBC)
    Black Forest Business School
    Jan 2012 - Jan 2014 (2 years 1 month)
  • Offenburg University of Applied Sciences
    Master of Business Administration (MBA
    Offenburg University of Applied Sciences
    Jan 2012 - Jan 2014 (2 years 1 month)
  • Tecnologico de Monterrey
    Bachelor of Science (BS, Computer Science and Technology
    Tecnologico de Monterrey
    Jan 2005 - Jan 2009 (4 years 1 month)
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    obsidianos_work - ObsidianOS - AI Agentic Work Vault
    Feb 2026 - Current (6 months)
    https://github.com/benoror/obsidianos_work
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    gpg.nvim - Edit GPG encrypted files symmetrically in NeoVIM
    Nov 2025 - Current (9 months)
    https://github.com/benoror/gpg.nvim
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    better-npm-run - 🏃‍♂️ Better NPM scripts runner
    May 2016 - Current (10 years 3 months)
    https://github.com/benoror/better-npm-run
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    Panax.io
    Feb 2016 - Current (10 years 6 months)
    Panax is a framework for generation of business applications based on solid relational data models. A detailed configuration-driven approach allows a high customization level and complex business-rules. Every change is reflected immediately in the resulting app, allowing agile prototyping. Panax' aim is to be agnostic of database vendor, backend and user interface, exploiting state-of-the-art technologies, like Node.js and AngularJS, and allowing high extensibility.
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    Nimbo X
    Feb 2016 - Current (10 years 6 months)
    EHR SaaS product focused in providing the best physician experience for LatAm market
  • C
    Cotiza Hoy E-Commerce Website
    Feb 2010 - Current (16 years 6 months)
    B2B Website for Industry
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    Open Source
    Jan 2001 - Current (25 years 7 months)
    https://github.com/benoror - Open Source projects
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    1st place INPOJUVE Entrepreneurship Contest
    Issued by Goverment of the State of San Luis Potosí
    May 2009 - Jun 2009 (2 months)
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    Medium Blog
    May 2016 - Current (10 years 3 months)
    Blog at Medium: https://medium.com/@benoror
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    Design & Implementation of a Balanced Scorecard in SAP BO Design Studio & SAP HANA
    Hochschule Offenburg Feb
    Feb 2013 - Dec 2013 (11 months)
    In this day and age of competitive business world there is an increasing need for effective tools to analyze the performance of corporations. The traditional way of performance measurement was to use purely financial indicators, based mostly on historical data, but so far they have been proven not enough for current competitive environments. This thesis aim is to analyze the implementation of a real-world management tool called Balanced Scorecard combined with state-of-art information technologies, and compare the results in a form of a case study. The Balanced Scorecard purpose is to provide specific initiatives and measurements based not only on financial st
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    Assembler Shellcodes under Linux
    ConthacktoNet May
    May 2008 - Aug 2008 (4 months)
    Published a series of articles about assembler coding and security in Linux using syscalls, shellcodes, and buffer overflows.