Richard Ortega
San Antonio, TX
A data-driven marketing guy who is also a software developer (self-taught Ruby and Rails). Eye for quality aesthetics and design-first developing. Loves creating and helping startups. Expert online analytics and marketing for over 5 years at luxury hotels and digital agencies. Formerly co-founder of Grapevine, a San Antonio and Geekdom-based startup formed to help businesses stay informed of online conversations.
Favorite skill: connecting the dots before everyone else. Thank you to all the support from friends and colleagues in my life.
Currently: Principal Software Development Engineer, iSoftStone/Boeing
Former: Rails Developer at TrueAbility (trueability.com), Technical Co-Founder at Grapevine (pickgrapevine.com)
Education:
- Self-taught developer (Codecademy, Rails Tutorial book, MIT OpenCourseWare, CodeSchool, Learn Ruby the Hard Way)
- 2008, BBA in Information Systems, University of the Incarnate Word