About Me:


Hi! I'm Alvaro, a specialist in solving business problems focused on data. With over a decade of experience, I have worked with leading companies in Latin America, including Banco Itau, Banco Galicia, Coca Cola, Fesenius, Monsanto, Osde, Inacap, Ulagos, Movistar/Telefonica, and Infobae.

I have a diverse skill set that includes architecture design, pre-sales, customer training, proof of concept development, and project implementation. My work involves collaborating with clients to design robust data architectures, delivering successful pre-sales engagements, providing training sessions, and building proof of concepts to showcase the value of our solutions.


Skills


Soft Skills:

  • Problem Solving.
  • Team Builder.
  • Communication and Leadership
  • Creative Thinking
  • Self-taught
  • Interdisciplinary

Tecnical Skills:

  • Big Data AWS ( Lambda | S3 | Glue | Dynamo | SQS | SNS | Athena | Quicksight | Kinesis )
  • Infrastructure as code ( Serverless Framework | Amazon CDK | Amazon SAM | Cloudformation | Terraform )
  • Python ( Anaconda | Pandas | SK-Learn | PySpark| Django | Flask | FastAPI |)
  • Steaming ( MQTT | Kafka )
  • Version Control ( Git | Github | Gitlab | CodeCommit)
  • Front-End ( HTML | CSS | JS )
  • Linux ( Ubuntu | Debian | CentOS | RedHat )

Languages:

  • Spanish: Native
  • Englis: Upper-Intermediate (B2)

Work Experience


Leading a team of engineers in the task of providing the best service to clients from different sectors, especially Banking, Education and Retail. Relieving, Designing and Developing solutions to data-oriented business problems. Working exclusively with AWS services. Among my responsibilities are:

  • Lead a team of data engineers.
  • Speaker at conferences and events for clients.
  • Develop solutions of data with Cloud Tools.
  • Coaching and Capacitation clients in use of Cloud Data Tools.
  • Specialized in AWS Solutions.
  • Design and implementation of data governance plans.
  • Design and implementation of data integration projects.
  • Design and implementation of data migration projects.
  • Design and implementation of data quality projects.

Consultancy specialized in creating data strategies for small and medium-sized companies in different sectors.

As well, she also mentors IT managers and leaders in setting up job searches and facilitating material or support for technical interviews.

Among my main activities are:

  • Mentoring to C-level leaders and executives.
  • Support to HR in the preparation of job searches.
  • Support in technical interviews.
  • Mentoring to Developers in the assembly of data portfolios.
  • Design of data strategies, governance and storage.
  • Participation in community events as a speaker.
  • Support in the organization of community events.

Core banking process migration project to new technologies, leading a team of engineers and functional analysts. Among my responsibilities were:

  • Full Time In Banco Galicia
  • Management of the critical chain of debtors and banking history.
  • Management and planning of information integration projects.
  • Budget management and management of suppliers
  • Automation of information burdens
  • Consolidate and normalize data from various sources.
  • Provide certified information repository.
  • Managment and resolution of issues and problems.
  • Modification of rules and reports in ad hoc tools./li>

Leading a multidisciplinary team of five people, we developed data-oriented solutions to support business operations. Among my responsibilities were:

  • Management and planning of information integration projects for commercial areas.
  • Budget management and supplier management.
  • Provide a certified information repository to all business units.
  • Design of visualizations oriented to UX with the support of a graphic designer.
  • Insigth generation and gradual incorporation of Machine Learning to the decision making process
  • Training to employees of the commercial area on the use of BI platforms and safe handling of information.

Management and planning of new business intelligence projects to provide strategic information to all areas of the business.

Promote the use of Bi tools as the only repository of certified company information.

Managed and administered a data processing support team distributed between Argentina, Brazil and Costa Rica. Among my responsibilities were:

  • Support sales loading processes from bottling plants.
  • Technology update in old processes to new technologies.
  • Guard management.
  • Resolution of support tickets.
  • Direct report to Coca Cola Mexico and Atlanta.

Development of BI applications in general, development and implementation of data warehouse in various database engines, using SAP technology exclusively.


Education and certifications



Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science - ORT
Degree received in 2016 - Average score 8.89
ORT | Buenos Aires, Argentina


AWS Certifications:
AWS Cloud Practitioner
Certification received in Nov 2021 , Creedly Link


SAP Certifications:
SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Business Intelligence (BI) and Enterprise Information Management (EIM)
Certification received in May 2013 , Credential ID: S0009786200ID
SAP BusinessObjects EPM and GRC Product Knowledge
Certification received in May 2013 , Credential ID: S0009786200


Data Science Bootcamp
Intensive 11-day course where we work on all the main concepts of Machine Learning from data preparation, model training, adjustments, testing and later generation of inferences.

Projects & events






Host at AWS User Group Chile: Re:Cap of Re:Invent 2023 Part 2

Pioneered as the first in LATAM to host an online event through the AWS Chile User Group, discussing AWS's latest innovations at Re:Invent 2023.

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Host at AWS User Group Chile: Re:Cap of Re:Invent 2023 Part

Pioneered as the first in LATAM to host an online event through the AWS Chile User Group, discussing AWS's latest innovations at Re:Invent 2023.

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Speaker at AWS Community Day Chile: Security Edition 2023

I was invited as a speaker to participate in the first aws community day: security edition in Santiago de Chile.

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Speaker at the Monthly Meetup of AWS User Group Chile

After the positive repercussion of my talk at AWS Community Day: Security Edition Chile 2023, I was invited by the organizing team of AWS User Group Chile to reproduce my talk at their monthly meetup for all those who were left without hearing me in person.

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Commercial presentation "How to obtain operational and economic benefits from your data"

Supporting the Cloudhesive commercial team, we carried out a technical and functional talk on the benefits of data monetization in cloud environments, especially using AWS serverless services.

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