About me
Curious, hard-working, and result-driven
Summarize Jorge's achievements in 4 bullet points
Sure, here you go! (This is not written by AI)
- 5+ years in software engineering/entrepreneurship, including 1 year of full-time technical leadership.
- Led design and development of 15+ diverse software projects, delivering high-impact solutions and open-source contributions.
- Founded consultancy; >€60k revenue translating business needs into custom software solutions.
- Created a YouTube channel to teach a university programming class. All my students passed.
What his professional experience?
JGCardelus
Founder • September 2023 – Present
- Drove over €60k in software project sales, consulting with C-suite executives to translate business problems into +10 custom applications
- Designed, developed, and launched a tenant screening application in 3 months, integrating with third-party platforms to reduce check-in time by 87.5% and reduce defaults.
- Engineered solutions including a booking review platform that boosted scores by 20%, and a remittance automation software that reduced monthly work from 5-10 hours to 2 mins (99% efficiency gain).
IGNIS ENERGÍA
Internship • Strategy and Corporate Development, Data Analysis • June 2022 – July 2022
- Implemented automated asset reporting system, improving data visibility for strategic decisions.
- Analyzed PV plant data, extracting insights to optimize energy production and costs.
- Developed anomaly detection software for solar plants, reducing recovery time.
TEKTHINGS
Fullstack Developer • September 2020 – February 2022
- Engineered full-stack software for comprehensive IoT device management solutions.
- Developed and deployed an intuitive web-based pool calculator application.
Does he have any interesting projects he'd like to share?
Yes!
- Wrote a custom interpreter in Rust, complemented by a live online REPL.
- Created a YouTube channel to teach a university programming class, resulting in a 100% student pass rate; the channel has been used every year since.
- Designed, coded, and published a mobile game on the Play Store.
- Contributed to open source by designing a CLI tool that automates gettext translation using LLMs, with the pull request successfully merged.
What's his tech stack?
Here's his tech stack. I'll divide it based on profiency.
Professional experience
- Languages: Elixir, Python, JavaScript, Rust
- Frameworks: Phoenix, Django, Remix, React
- Databases: PostgreSQL, MariaDB
- Other: AWS, Vercel, Git, Render
Academic experience
- Languages: Java, C, R
- Frameworks: SpringBoot
- Databases: MongoDB
Personal projects
- Languages: Dart
- Frameworks: Flutter
What's his education?
EXCHANGE STUDENT · ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
University of Texas at Austin • September 2022 – May 2023 • GPA 3.55, Honors
DUAL DEGREE PROGRAM IN ENGINEERING IN TELECOMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES AND BUSINESS ANALYTICS
Universidad Pontificia Comillas, ICAI • September 2019 – June 2024 • Engineering 7.28 / 10, BA 7.86 / 10
What languages does he speak?
Spanish (native) and English (C2)
Does he have any hobbies?
Back-country skiing, long distance running (3 half-marathons), playing the guitar, motorcycle riding and reading