Jorge is a freelancer dedicated to mobile development, security, and systems architecture. He started his work as a developer at M.I.T. in 1993 and since has collaborated in numerous software projects. Most of them were internally for HP where he worked for more than 15 years. Since 2008 he has been working in different aspects of mobile development. After playing with PalmOS, he learned Android programming for the first Google App contest and immediately started to play with the first iPhone SDK. He is an instructor in the best iOS and Android Bootcamps in the USA and Europe, and has spoken at some of the world's most renowned conferences about topics relating to mobile app architecture and best practices (and occasionally about Go and Raspberry Pis).
Talks I've Given
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Workshop: Unit Test Your Views - Part 2
Featuring Jorge Ortiz‑Fuentes
This is a hands on workshop to learn how to fully test your app, focusing on the view part of the architecture without using instrumentation. In this session, Jorge will share a simple but well-architected application using Android Architecture Components. Then, he will use Robolectric,...
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Workshop: Unit Test Your Views - Part 1
Featuring Jorge Ortiz‑Fuentes
This is a hands on workshop to learn how to fully test your app, focusing on the view part of the architecture without using instrumentation. In this session, Jorge will share a simple but well-architected application using Android Architecture Components. Then, he will use Robolectric,...
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Mr. Wolf's Horror Stories
Featuring Jorge Ortiz‑Fuentes
Consulting about architecture and best practices for big companies and startups is the closest you can get to being The Wolf (Pulp Fiction). Although there are excellent teams that do a great and professional work with the development of their apps, horror stories happen. The consultant gets a...
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Workshop: Let's Migrate to Gradle Kotlin DSL
Featuring Jorge Ortiz‑Fuentes
Gradle is an awesome and very powerful build tool. It is key to tune your build and even more relevant to achieve the promised karma of continuous integration.
However, one of its biggest "shortcomings" is that in order to extract any drop of power juice, you need to know and use...
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Workshop: Hands On Advanced Architecture for iOS
Featuring Jorge Ortiz‑Fuentes
In this workshop you will implement one user story from scratch for a new iOS application. Distribution of the contents and scope may vary slightly, in order to maximize the understanding of the basics.
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Panel discussion - Trends!
Featuring Jorge Ortiz‑Fuentes, Paul Ardeleanu, Janie Clayton, Manuel M T Chakravarty, Saul Mora and Daniel Steinberg
Join our speakers and be part of the panel discussion that will take place at the end of #iOSCon day 1! The topics will be... trends!
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Architecting Alive Apps
Featuring Jorge Ortiz‑Fuentes
Our apps are ever more alive. They interact with the rest of the world talking to backends and receiving notifications from them. They get their input from us and from other sensors. They are even aware of the location of the device they run in, or its position. But, in our IoT world, they may...
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Why the dark side of the force should use Swift and a SOLID architecture
Featuring Jorge Ortiz‑Fuentes
Everybody involved in a mid size project or bigger is concerned about architecture. We have all been told that a good architecture can help us to have a more agile, robust, and easier to work with application, but it is not always clear how nor the architecture everybody else is talking about. By...
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