Gabriel Ortiz

Computer science student at Northeastern. I build software for aviation, mapping, and data problems.

Status

Seeking co-op · Jan–Jun 2027

Base

Boston, MA

Certificate

Private Pilot

School

Northeastern University · CS

Contact

Email GitHub LinkedIn

Projects

AirViz

2026

3D map of US airspace, built from FAA data

JavaScript / MapLibre GL JS / deck.gl / GDAL / GitHub Actions / Vite

airviz.gabrielortiz.io Source on GitHub

Pilots learn airspace from flat sectional charts, which makes the real 3D shape hard to picture. AirViz shows every Class B, C, and D airspace in the US as 3D volumes at their real floors and ceilings, on top of real terrain, in the browser.

Data pipeline turns the FAA's NASR shapefile into the map data: GDAL export and simplification (about 15x smaller), then a script that cuts overlapping volumes the way the FAA legal descriptions assign them.
The build checks the result against known points from sectional charts and fails if any are wrong, e.g. 1,499 ft over Hayward is inside Hayward's Class D and 1,500 ft is not.
A GitHub Actions job pulls each new 28-day FAA cycle, rebuilds and verifies the data, and commits it so Vercel redeploys. If anything fails it opens an issue and the site keeps the previous cycle.
Airport search across about 5,000 public-use airports, and the Mode C veil, generated from the airport list in 14 CFR Part 91 Appendix D.

YearProjectRemarksLinks

2026

Open Flight Schools

TypeScript / Next.js / Supabase / Mapbox GL JS

Open-source directory with an interactive map, filterable school listings, detail pages, and community-submitted entries reviewed through a moderation queue.

Code Live

2024

Cost Accumulation Software

Java / JavaFX

Desktop app that replaced Excel formulas for the costing team at BYP, a Mexican paint-applicator manufacturer. Calculates product cost from shipping, taxes, container limits, and import fees, with user auth, live exchange rates, and a margin-based pricing calculator.

Code

Open Flight Schools

2026

TypeScript / Next.js / Supabase / Mapbox GL JS

Open-source directory with an interactive map, filterable school listings, detail pages, and community-submitted entries reviewed through a moderation queue.

Code Live

Cost Accumulation Software

2024

Java / JavaFX

Code

Experience

AerospaceNU

Software Engineer

Jul 2026 – Present

Boston, MA

Extended the async data acquisition pipeline for ATLAS, a Python CLI that pulls satellite imagery and climate data from 20+ sources (Sentinel-2, Landsat, MODIS, NASA FLDAS).
Fixed silent incomplete or misleading results in 4 ATLAS data clients (GOES, Himawari, Maxar, GIBS) by adding shared S3 pagination, antimeridian-aware bounding-box filtering, and event filtering before Maxar's result cap.
Designing mode-transition logic and the electronics stack for Mudskipper, a multi-modal air/ground/water drone.

About

Private pilot: FAA certificated
DJ: 10+ years, crowds of 3,000+
Languages: Spanish (native), German (B2)
Mountain biking

I was born in San Diego and grew up mostly in Mexico. I started programming around 13 with an Arduino and a lot of trial and error. I'm drawn to the systems side of software: the math, and how things actually work under the hood.

Outside of class I'm a licensed private pilot, a DJ, and a mountain biker. I speak Spanish and German.

Education & Skills

Northeastern University

B.S. in Computer Science

Expected May 2029

Dean's List, Spring 2026

Languages: Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, SQL, HTML/CSS
Libraries: NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, asyncio, JavaFX, MapLibre GL JS, deck.gl, Mapbox GL JS
Tools: Git, GitHub Actions, REST APIs, pytest, GDAL, QGIS, Vite
Coursework: Object-Oriented Design, Linear Algebra, Discrete Structures, Program Design & Implementation 1