Miguel Ortiz is a hands-on leader in industrial automation and autonomous systems whose career bridges advanced manufacturing, robotics and product-scale software architecture. As Mecca Innovation & Technology’s Co-Founder and Chief Automation Officer (CAO), Miguel led systems integration and workflow automation across multiple federal and prize-driven innovation efforts — including principal technical roles on two DOE SBIR initiatives (Adaptive Analytics of Critical Materials and the Advanced Thermal Regeneration & Regulation System) and leadership across three HeroX challenge submissions (Re-X Before Recycling, the E-SCRAP Prize and a Joint Venture Micron-Fraction Recycling Process). These R&D and challenge projects shaped the core product ideas and technical pipelines that Miguel later brought to life as the CTO of 2DaLoop, turning research prototypes into an engineered platform for circular-economy reintegration and automated material handling.
Before co-founding Mecca, Miguel built deep domain experience at ABB as a Senior Autonomous Robotics Engineer, where he designed, optimized and deployed manufacturing-grade autonomy and vision-guided systems. That industry background — combined with earlier work optimizing manufacturing workflows for automotive
and large-scale production customers — gives him a rare ability to translate lab-scale algorithms and AI into reliable, production-grade automation and orchestration. Miguel’s work emphasizes AI-driven process flows, mission/mission-generation optimization, and real-time control logic that raise throughput, reduce variance and enable safe, secure integration with enterprise systems.
As CTO of 2DaLoop, Miguel leads product & platform architecture, owns the engineering roadmap, and drives the technical integration of the data pipeline via the hybrid cloud, API-first system for OEMs and Recyclers. His combined strengths in systems engineering, workflow automation, and autonomous robotics make him the technical engine behind 2DaLoop’s mission to scale sustainable, automated circular-economy solutions.