Hi, I’m Jorge A. Cortés. I’m an R&D engineer specialized in software development with wide experience in electronics products and embedded software development in automotive and industrial sectors. My passion is learning and discovering new technologies and their applications.

cortesja.com is my homepage. Here I write about Technology, its impact, software, electronics, side projects, crypto, and other interests.

You can contact or follow me on Twitter or LinkedIn. You can also hire me.

Projects

Writing

• cortesja.com – My homepage, you’re here.
• @cortesja – My Twitter account where I share tweets about tech, software, crypto and discoveries.
• Oravatec – Project for spreading knowledge about electronic product development and embedded software (in Spanish).
• jorgeacortes.com – Personal blog in Spanish talking about technology, engineering, software and other topics.

Software

• MergeDojo.com – An opinionated, alternative web client for Gitlab.
• NFTs Collectors – Webapp for finding information about owners of premium NFTs collections by extracting data from the Ethereum blockchain. Featured at ens.domains ecosystem.
• Ethereum Smart Contracts
  • FastFoodPunks ERC-721: Contract for migrating from Opensea Shared Storefront contract ERC-1155 to a custom ERC-721 one. Opensea – Migration webpage – Proof
  • FastFoodPunks Gen2 ERC-721: NFT contract with presale with reserved spots based on token ownership and public minting. Opensea – Mint webpage – Proof
• Mirror Gateway – A Web3.0 experiment for rendering mirror.xyz articles extracting data from the Arweave blockchain and hosted over IPFS.
• Ethereum Alarms – A webapp that using an Ethereum provider, listen for new Ethereum blocks and allows the user to set an alarm when one specific block is mined.
• Open source software – My contributions in Github.

Archived projects

• Mirror Subgraph: Subgraph indexing some mirror.xyz Ethereum smart contracts (open sourced).
• Announcer (Polygon PoS): Public on-chain announcements for teams experiment.
• Takeminutes – Webapp for taking collaborative meeting minutes.
• Simplechart – A web tool for creating quickly really simple charts.

My career

I currently work at Cabify in Spain doing Logistics product development. Mainly developing scalable services, APIs and frontend applications.

Before that I have:

• Cofounded an electronics R&D agency for industrial and consumer markets and an EMS assembly line.
• Helped tens of companies to design and develop their electronic products from concept to manufacturing using multiple technologies for industrial and consumer markets.
• Designed, developed and deployed a global IOT hardware and software platform for an industrial crane brakes OEM.
• Designed and developed manufacturing embedded software and help define manufacturing test stations for Volkswagen Group Tier1 ADAS ECUs.
• Lead the software architecture for a Volkswagen Group Tier1 ADAS ECU.
• Designed and developed proof of concepts for new networking technologies and protocols with automotive OEMs.
• Developed multiple automotive network testing products.