Fernando Fernando Ortiz

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Engineering Manager at Ashford Group | ex-Pinterest

Ashford Group
Austin, TX · CT (UTC-6)
11+ years experience
Georgia Tech
English
Co-founder
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Overview

11 years in software engineering, the last 5 at Ashford Group, where I lead the search team. Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 38 minutes to under 6. Most at home with Elasticsearch and Lucene. Learning Japanese, slowly.

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Skills
PythonElasticsearchLucenelearning to rankJava
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Need a technical co-founder: API security in India

The idea
API security in India
Stage
Customer interviews
I bring
13 years in search and ranking
Looking for
Commercial co-founder who has sold to enterprises
Commitment
Full-time after funding
Location
Austin or remote

I bring 11 years of search and ranking (currently Ashford Group). Ideally you've led a design team. Full-time from day one.

Austin, TXlucenepythonjava
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Experience

  1. Engineering Manager
    Apr 2022 - Present
    Ashford Group · 4 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Austin, TX
    • Cut p99 latency on the search services from 846ms to 132ms.
    • Built the experimentation framework 36 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Led the migration of 70 services to Lucene.
  2. Software Engineer
    Aug 2018 - Apr 2022
    Pinterest · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Austin, TX
    • Brought on-call pages for search down from 26 a week to 1.
    • Wrote the Python service that now handles 50 million requests a day.
  3. Software Engineer
    Oct 2015 - Aug 2018
    IBM · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Austin, TX
    • Moved 91% of search traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Shipped 27 launches on the search team without a rollback.

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Education

  1. Georgia Tech
    BS, Computer Science
    2011 - 2015

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