My name is Basti Ortiz.
- AI Product Engineer (2025-Present) @ Casper Studios
- Full-Stack Engineer (2024-2025) @ Verdn (YC W22)
- Director for Engineering (2023-2024) @ UP Center for Student Innovations
- Summa Cum Laude B.Sc. Computer Science @ University of the Philippines - Diliman
- Published Author of "Hotspotter: An Incentivized Crowdsensing System for WiFi and Cellular Network Coverage Visualization"
- Published Author of "Formalizing Resource Ownership Semantics of Spinlocks with the Coq Proof Assistant"
I am also a well-respected author who writes blog posts at dev.to about various topics and technologies. I am most known for my JavaScript and Rust articles. In no particular order, the following articles below are among my most well-received:
- Programming is Hard
- 🦀 Rust Reviewed: Is the hype justified? 🦀
- 18 Essential Videos That Fundamentally Shaped My Understanding of JavaScript
- The Proper Way to Write Async Constructors in JavaScript
- A Grammar-Based Naming Convention
| Platform | User |
|---|---|
| [email protected] | |
| 🌱 dev.to | @somedood |
| in/basti-ortiz | |
| @BastiDood | |
| 🦋 Bluesky | @bastidood.dev |
