Resume

Professional experience and qualifications

updated · jun 2026
Steven Ortega

Steven Ortega

Computer Science Student · Founder · Full-stack Engineer

Summary

Computer Science student and full-stack SWE intern candidate with 1–2 years of experience building and shipping web apps using React, Next.js, Supabase, SQL, and Java. Co-founder / CEO of a tech startup with 33 waitlisted users, plus freelance experience delivering production websites. A product-minded builder who enjoys turning ambiguous ideas into clean, working software.

Experience

4 roles

Co-founder/CEO

Krowe Technologies Inc.Krowe Technologies Inc.
2025 - Present

Building Krowe Portal — a secure portal where SMB operators scope, pay, and ship internal systems with an AI-native builder, all in one workspace. The portal is the moat: it makes it safe to hire a fast, low-cost, unproven builder by containing the risk and verifying the work.

  • Co-founded and built a tech startup to 33 waitlisted users
  • Shipped the two-sided portal — builder & operator dashboards — on Next.js + Supabase with role-gated RLS
  • Partnered with SH1P, an Austin-based accelerator

In-House Full Stack Developer

Patel GainesPatel Gaines
2026 - Present

In-house full-stack developer for Patel Gaines, a Texas property tax law firm — owning the firm's web presence and building internal tools for the marketing and legal teams.

  • Built and maintain the firm's marketing site
  • Shipped internal tools to streamline client intake and case workflows
  • Partnered with the marketing team on SEO and campaign landing pages

Growth Engineer

Cal AICal AI
2025 - 2026

Growth engineering for Cal AI — building and shipping experiments across landing pages, funnels, and analytics to drive user acquisition.

  • Shipped A/B-tested landing pages and onboarding flows
  • Instrumented analytics funnels to measure activation and retention
  • Automated growth reporting dashboards

Co-founder/President

RLRowdy Launch
2025 - 2026

Co-founded a startup club to help students launch their own software companies — hosting events and workshops on startups, and teaching efficient ways to build an MVP.

  • Grew the club to 100+ members
  • Built and maintained the club website on Vercel + Supabase
  • Hosted 4 guest speakers for students
33
waitlist
100+
members
7
shipped

Education

University of Texas at Austin logo

B.S. Computer Science

University of Texas at Austin

2026 - 2029

  • Incoming Fall 2026
University of Texas at San Antonio logo

B.S Computer Science

University of Texas at San Antonio

2025 - 2026

  • Co-Founder and President of Rowdy Launch
  • Member of AKPsi

Skills

Languages
TypeScriptPythonSQL
Frameworks
Next.jsReactNode.jsTailwindFastifyFlaskPyTorch
Tools
GitAWSVercelOpenAIGeminiResend
Databases
PostgreSQLSupabase