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Carlos E. Ortega
Education
Bachelors in Cognitive Science • May 2021
Relevant Coursework
  • Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (CS188)
  • Principles and Techniques of Data Science (CS C100)
Experience
Software Development EngineerRemoteOct, 2022 — Present

• Developing…

Data EngineerRemoteNov, 2021 — Oct, 2022

• Building data pipelines, lakes, warehouses, and dashboards to serve the underserved.

Data Engineer ApprenticeRemoteAug, 2021 — Nov, 2021

• Building data pipelines lakes warehouses and dashboards to serve the underserved.

Peer Data Science ConsultantBerkeley, CASept, 2018 — May, 2021

• Held weekly sessions to help students and researchers, with NLP, Webscraping, and Python debugging.
• Developed initial dashboard prototype, with Dash/Plotly and deployed to Heroku, to help understand origin, length, time, and topic for 15 consultations per week.
• Led development and curation of team blog.

Data Science Civic Digital FellowSuitland, MDJun, 2019 — Aug, 2019

• Developed probabilistic fuzzy-matching program with Python, Flask, SQLite3, and HTML to speed up processed previously done man-ually, making the process 800% faster.
• Developed a web crawler and scraper in Python with Scrapy and scikit-learn to automate the maintenance of public-sector data collections, potentially saving 100s of annual hours.
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Skills
Programming Languages
    Python, R, Java, SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
Tools and Frameworks
    Git, Flask, AWS.
Human Skills
    Technical Writing, Requirements Gathering, Organizational Budgeting, Teaching, Blogging.
Leadership & Volunteering
Data FellowOnlineJun, 2020 — Sept, 2021

• Virginia Democratic Coordinated Campaign (August 2023 - November 2023)

• AZ LD-23 State Senate Campaign for Seth Blattman (January 2021 - September 2021)

• FL U.S. Senate Campaign for Allen Ellison (June 2020 - November 2020)

Editorial Associate and AuthorOnlineNov, 2019 — Aug, 2021

• Contributed 1 article and served as the editorial associate to over 50 pieces submitted to the blog.

Executive DirectorOnlineApr, 2018 — Dec, 2019

• Managed 100+ members per semester, formed strategic partnerships with external organizations and companies to better serve the media needs of the student body, and managed $23,000.