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Rafael Ortiz

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CTO at Glade Systems · React, accessibility

Works at
Glade Systems
Location
Chicago, IL · CT (UTC-6)
Experience
14+ years experience
Education
Harvard University
Languages
English

Overview

Based in Chicago. I lead web frontends at Glade Systems. Wrote the React service that now handles 31 million requests a day. Most at home with CSS and React. Open-source contributor on weekends.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Questions about web frontends
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
Please don't message about
  • Crypto token projects
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches
  • Recruiters for roles outside my stack

Answers in batches on Fridays

Skills
GraphQLReactTypeScriptaccessibilityCSSweb performance

Experience

  1. CTO
    Nov 2023 - Present
    Glade Systems · 3 yr · Full-time · Chicago, IL
    • Grew the web team from 3 to 34 engineers.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 19 minutes to under 2.
  2. Staff Frontend Engineer
    May 2021 - Nov 2023
    Meta · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Chicago, IL
    • Shipped 17 launches on the web team without a rollback.
  3. Senior Engineering Manager
    Sep 2018 - May 2021
    Qualcomm · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Chicago, IL
    • Brought on-call pages for web down from 19 a week to 2.
    • Led the move of 86 screens to a shared React component library.
  4. Senior Frontend Engineer
    Nov 2014 - Sep 2018
    Amazon · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Chicago, IL
    • Built the experimentation framework 24 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Shipped 11 launches on the web team without a rollback.
  5. Frontend Engineer
    Apr 2013 - Nov 2014
    Lyft · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Chicago, IL
    • Cut p99 latency on the web services from 814ms to 146ms.
    • Shipped 24 launches on the web team without a rollback.

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Education

  1. Harvard University
    AB, Computer Engineering
    2005 - 2009

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