Gabriel Ortolaza
Software Developer

Gabriel Ortolaza

Frontend software engineer at Giftly.com.
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About

Gabriel is a software engineer with 15 years of experience, specializing in front-end development with JavaScript, React, React Native, Vue.js, Angular, Node.js, and Express.js. He has developed applications and websites for many industries, including HR and staffing, fashion and social networking, healthcare, and eCommerce (including Walmart). Gabriel is passionate about simplifying processes, inventing solutions, and following best practices.

Employment

7 roles
Jun 2022 - Sep 2022 3 months
Front-End Software Engineer
Giftly.com
  • Programmed functional reusable components with a Vue.js 3.0 wired to a Ruby backend.
  • Styled the front end using windicss, a next-generation utility-first CSS framework.
  • Developed Giftly's Consumer/greeting card selection model so users can build their own gifts (select, drag, drop, preview, checkout).
  • Analyzed and suggested how designs could be reused for additional features to keep the engineering cost down some.
Nov 2021 - Jun 2022 7 months
Front-End Software Engineer
Guy Carpenter and Marsh McLennan
  • Analyzed customer needs and designed a technical solution.
  • Designed a layout of the application and conducted UI/UX research within the corporate environment.
  • Developed Giftly's Consumer/greeting card selection modal so users can build their own gifts (select, drag, drop, preview, checkout).
  • Did coding, testing, and implementing commits, builds, and updates in React JS environment.
  • Did the developing and maintaining Git repository and establishing a great collaboration among the cross-functional development team.
  • Divided the task into small parts and engaged with the entire development team.
Oct 2021 - Mar 2022 5 months
Full-Stack Angular & Laravel Developer
EnrollPro
  • Tied directly into preexisting patterns in a Laravel/Angular code base.
  • Published designs with Adobe XD for the manager and stakeholder feedback.
  • Programmed Stripe Subscription, Marketing email/text templates, Sending email/text, Chat, Admin page.
  • Refactored existing code to adapt to newer features.
May 2021 - Nov 2021 6 months
Full-Stack Engineer
Gigworks Inc
  • Conceptualized, designed, and programmed a marketplace for buying, selling and renting prop items for the film industry
  • Designed 32 screens utilizing material UI and conducted thorough research with users, competitors, and current market tools.
  • Worked with Tensorflow Tiramisu Model to train out dataset related to background removal processing and coded to identify and save distinction between the foreground and the background, so that the model can learn how to separate them.
  • Worked with Python, Tensorflow, Angular 12.0, Mongo Db, Graph QL, and more tools to get the project completed.
Apr 2019 - Dec 2020 1 year 8 months
Front-End Developer
PopupCare Inc
  • Was a Front end engineer on an Angular 7 MEAN stack app.
  • Styled per adobe XD design files provided by the design team.
  • Stepped in and did some design work to help get design caught up with engineering.
  • Integrated custom classes with bootstrap’s grid system using less.js while following progressive web app standards.
  • Worked to implement industry-standard accessibility techniques
Feb 2019 - Jan 2020 11 months
Full Stack Developer
Fashion Space
  • Was hired to finish building a social network for fashion designers, models, photographers and all other categories surrounding the fashion industry.
  • Found ways to keep the cost down like wrapping the web app using go native and finishing all steps to get the app onto the app store.
  • Implemented push notifications for both Android and Apple devices.
  • Completed the codebase using Laravel, AWS, STRIPE, Paypal, Firebase, Restful APIs and more.
Sep 2018 - Feb 2019 5 months
Front-End Developer
Walmart Inc
  • Programmed front-end functionality and designs using Sass styling.
  • Met with the designer weekly to go over design details and what was expected for front-end functionality.
  • Worked with Redux architecture using complex Object-Oriented concepts while improving the performance of the app.
  • Forked boilerplate code base geared toward using typescript inside a react app.
  • Met with the backend team to plan out specific endpoints necessary for component features.
  • Worked in an agile environment with stand-up meetings every few days.

Education

Jan 2006 - Dec 2008 2 years 11 months
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Programming
Forsyth Technical College