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Diego Alvarez

Portfolio

A decade of payments,
data, and tooling.

Selected case studies across product management, data engineering, AI research, and analytics — from current Vaultapps engagements and PhD work back through Braintree, PayPal, and earlier builds. Write me for the longer list.

Data Engineering2025 — Present

App-store intelligence platform

Market-intelligence platform for app brokers — Google Play crawler, live-deals scraper, and a TimescaleDB warehouse holding ~45M App Store listings, surfaced through an Elixir/Phoenix API.

Elixir / PhoenixTimescaleDBOban
Product Management2025 — Present

Gameday Media — high-school sports MVP

Multi-surface MVP for a high-school sports media platform — Expo mobile app, Next.js admin, and infrastructure. Hard-scoped launch around one school, one sport, one season.

Expo / React NativeNext.js 16TypeScript
Product Management2025 — Present

OptoTech — eye-performance training app

iOS-first mobile app for sports-performance eye training — guided exercises across focus, coordination, agility, and stability. Sole-developer build alongside a clinical lead.

Expo / React NativeFirebase Remote ConfigTestFlight
AI / Research2024 — Present

RAG and Text-to-SQL over Open Government Data

PhD research on chat interfaces over municipal and federal datasets — Retrieval-Augmented Generation with verifiable citations, plus Text-to-SQL for structured public datasets.

RAGText-to-SQLLLMs
Product Management2023 — 2024

Financial Recovery with Automation

Led the build of an automated dispute-recovery system on the Braintree Payments API that recovered over $10M annually for merchants — GraphQL mutations, automated fund recovery, custom enterprise reporting, and a state-machine-backed dispute lifecycle.

Payments APIGraphQL MutationsState machines
Data Engineering2023 — 2024

Automated payroll processing for Antigua Guatemala

An automated pipeline that turned scanned municipal payroll PDFs into a clean, machine-readable dataset — AWS S3, Textract, and LLMs in the loop on the flagged rows — replacing a fragile manual extraction workflow.

AWS S3AWS TextractLLMs
Data Analysis2023 — 2024

Payroll open-data dashboard for Antigua Guatemala

An interactive open-data dashboard that lets the citizens of Antigua Guatemala see and understand how their municipal payroll is spent — automated integration, AI-assisted cleaning, and accessible visualizations.

Open Gov DataAI classificationInteractive dashboards
Product Management2019

Xoom data deletion for GDPR/CCPA

Led the design and rollout of Xoom's automated data-deletion system to reach 100% GDPR and CCPA compliance — the cross-org program that gated, and then unlocked, Xoom's full European launch.

GDPRCCPAInternal APIs