Rodrigo Ortega

Rodrigo Ortega

Finance & Business | Applied AI | Blockchain | Autonomous Systems | Builder

I build with AI, from software to autonomous systems, and write about what I learn along the way. Ex-JPMorgan Chase Credit Underwriter, homesteading in Texas, and training for Hyrox.

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About Me

Most of what I do comes back to one question: is this actually any good, and does it hold up? At JPMorgan Chase I asked it as a commercial credit underwriter, on multi-million-dollar deals for companies doing $20M to $500M in revenue. I asked it again as the operator of my family's business, on the hook for the numbers myself. And when applied AI, autonomous systems, and blockchain came along, I asked it of them too: are these legit, or just noise?

My path into finance ran through the McCombs School of Business at UT Austin, one of the top business programs in the country, where JPMorgan Chase recruited me straight out of school ...