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Juan Felipe Ortiz
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About

I grew up in Bucaramanga, Colombia. I learned English in the UK at 14 and French in France at 19, and got used to working in international teams across eight Model UN conferences (2017 – present).

I graduated valedictorian from high school in 2021, traded Bucaramanga for Madrid to study a dual BBA + Data & Business Analytics at IE University (#2 of ~120 in class, GPA 9.37), and spent an exchange semester at Cornell.

Today I build software for the different businesses at CHEDAR; most recently, on my own, a 330K-member platform migration for Monvanityideal. I also led the three-person team behind the multi-agent Aegis framework, which won Best Patient Impact at GSK × IE. I have also mentored a first-year IE student.

Juan Felipe smiling, with green fields and holm oaks behind him.

Timeline

  1. May 2026 – PresentMadrid

    Software Developer & PM (AI-First)

    CHEDAR

    1. 330K+ members on Monvanityideal (Blendly), a beauty platform I rebuilt and migrated on my own.
    2. ~30% of the CHEDAR app: one of the developers rewriting the production-accounting SaaS for film and media companies.
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    Cross-functional developer and PM, building software for the group's different businesses. The CHEDAR app (budgets, purchasing and production accounting for film and media) is being rewritten by a small team on Hono, Postgres and Drizzle, self-hosted on Coolify. I'm also designing 'Hermes', an AI assistant for customer support and code.

  2. January 2026 – June 2026Madrid

    Project Lead, Aegis Framework

    GSK × IE University

    1. Best Patient Impact award at the Biopharma & AI Gateway.
    2. Multi-agent AI system for antimicrobial-resistance research; I led a 3-person team.
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    Four specialist LLM agents (Pathogen, Host, Environment, Intervention) analyse structured tuberculosis cases, each running in parallel on OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini and Ollama Cloud; GPT-4o merges their answers and keeps agreements, disagreements and open questions. Evidence comes from a live Europe PMC search plus uploaded files, and a pre-publish check blocks uncited claims. I wrote 102 of the 110 commits.

  3. August 2025 – May 2026Remote

    Software Developer, Process Automation

    Lejarde & Ortiz S.A.S., provider to Banco GNB Sudameris

    1. 20 h → 4 h in manual tests (80% less time): a platform I built solo to run the monthly commission cycle for the bank's loan advisors.
    2. 3 role portals (admin, coordinator, advisor) around an audited monthly cycle, signed PDFs and the bank's batch-payment file.
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    Ingests the bank's Excel, matches each loan to its advisor and coordinator, calculates tiered commissions, generates signed Cuenta de Cobro PDFs and exports GNB's fixed-width batch-payment file. TypeScript, Hono, PostgreSQL and Docker; 118 of 118 commits are mine.

  4. November 2024 – July 2025Madrid

    Data Analysis & Business Development Intern

    IE University, Talents & Careers

    1. Full migration of students and staff to a new platform: cleaning, validation, and stakeholder coordination.
    2. CV dossiers for partner companies, increasing student hiring opportunities.
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    Partnered with the Talents & Careers team to clean and migrate records from legacy spreadsheets into the new platform. Built CV dossiers that the careers advisors could share with hiring partners, broadening the roles students could apply to.

  5. November 2023 – September 2024Madrid

    Junior Developer (Full Stack)

    Brace Developers

    1. ~90% of bracedevelopers.com: built from architecture to launch on a React/TypeScript stack.
    2. SEO-friendly, analytics-ready site with fast load times, built in coordination with designers.
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    Responsive React/TypeScript components on a shared component library, an SEO-friendly, analytics-ready structure, performance checks to cut load time, and day-to-day coordination with designers.

  6. January 2023 – June 2023Madrid

    IEU Innovation Lab participant

    Amazon AWS Innovation Center

    1. 12 companies shortlisted after designing an AWS enablement programme for SMBs.
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    Defined selection criteria, mapped a 1-week process-improvement sprint, and built a Figma landing-page prototype presented to board members.

  7. June 2021 – September 2021Bucaramanga, Colombia

    Marketing Intern

    Brace Developers

    1. 10,000+ views across 10 posts, plus client relations, negotiations, and new-project meetings.
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    Built tools to optimise online advertising and social media. Weekly project tracking, plus Platzi/Udemy community-management courses for the role.

  • Juan Felipe with his team in front of the GSK sign during the Biopharma & AI Gateway.
  • Juan Felipe on stage holding his Best Delegate certificate, beside the other award winners at a Model UN conference.
  • Juan Felipe raising the Minister of Trade placard in a Model UN crisis committee session.
  • Juan Felipe with fellow students recognised as top performers.
  • Juan Felipe with his team and their trophy at an awards evening.
  • Juan Felipe's valedictorian plaque from New Cambridge School, class of 2020–2021.
  • Juan Felipe's IEUMUN 2024 Best Delegate certificate, for representing the Minister of Trade.