Diego Ortiz
Backend Developer at BASE1
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolDiego Ortiz is a pragmatic backend developer with 18+ years of software engineering experience and nine years of focused backend/ML work, now based in Toronto. He blends deep expertise in C#, Go, Node.js, TypeScript, Python and SQL with hands-on MLOps/LLMOps and GenAI design, having built reusable LLM components and an agentic modernization workflow at IBM. Diego has led cross-functional teams and incubator projects, driving scalable platform architecture, ETL modernization on Databricks/Azure, and production-ready MLOps pipelines using Kubernetes and open-source tooling. His background in project management and ERP deployments gives him a customer-centric bent—he designs maintainable solutions that balance business value with technical rigor. Notably, he created a Java source-code analyzer for LLMs and refactoring guidelines that emphasize reusability across languages and formats.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Degree Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Postgraduate Degree Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at Lambton CollegeBachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering at Universidad Industrial de SantanderPostgraduate Degree Project Management, Postgraduate Degree Project Management at Universidad del Rosario
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (92)
go-micro10
architecture9
dotnet9
web-application9
dotnet-core9
application-framework9
csharp9
wcf9
domain-driven-design9
dependency-injection8
ai8
golang8
microservices8
micro8
asp-net8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
diegoortizmatajira/LYRD-lua
May 2021 - Jul 2026
Layered Neovim Settings in Lua
Contributions:1 release, 3 PRs, 631 pushes in 5 years 2 months
diegoortizmatajira/.dotfiles
May 2021 - Oct 2025
Contributions:147 pushes, 2 branches, 1 tag in 4 years 6 months
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