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Diego Alvarez

Resume

Fourteen years in software, seven in FinTech product, now in Data, AI and research.

Experience

  1. PhD Researcher · Con/Data — PhD research

    2024 — Present
    • Research on Retrieval Augmented Generation, Text-to-SQL, and Open Government Data.
    • Prototyping chat interfaces over municipal and federal datasets for non-technical audiences.
  2. Sr. Product, Data & AI Consultant · Vaultapps

    2025 — Present
    • Lead data, product, and AI engagements across concurrent client projects — app-store intelligence, sports-media platforms, eye-performance training, and field-data capture.
    • Built an Elixir/Phoenix API backed by a TimescaleDB warehouse ingesting ~45M Apple and Google app-store listings for the App Peak product.
    • Shipping React Native, Expo, and Next.js apps end-to-end as sole developer on multiple engagements; consulting on architecture, data pipelines, and product scope.
  3. Senior Product Manager · Braintree (a PayPal company)

    2023 — 2024

    Chicago · Guatemala · Poland

    • Led cross-functional teams across three time zones to design, build, and enhance Payment API products.
    • Shipped dispute automation features that reduced manual review for eligible chargebacks.
    • Partnered with risk, legal, and engineering on regulatory-sensitive product decisions.
  4. Senior Product Manager · Mastercard

    2022 — 2023
    • Developed cloud-based FinTech solutions and led cloud migration initiatives.
    • Defined product strategy for platform services consumed by enterprise issuers.
  5. Product Manager · PayPal · Xoom · Venmo

    2018 — 2022
    • Platform PM for Internal Customer Tools powering Platform API, Risk, and Compliance teams.
    • Owned roadmap for tooling used by hundreds of internal analysts and ops agents.
  6. University Professor · Rafael Landívar University, Faculty of Engineering

    2019 — 2021
    • Taught programming courses to ~90 engineering students per semester.
    • Mentored senior capstone teams on data and software projects.

Education

  • PhD in Finance and Administration

    Galileo University

    2023 — 2025
  • Post-Graduate Degree in Business Intelligence

    Galileo University

    2022
  • Post-Graduate Degree in Data Analysis and Prediction

    Galileo University

    2021
  • MSc in Data Analysis and Prediction

    Galileo University

    2005 — 2009
  • BSc in Computer Science

    Rafael Landívar University

    2013 — 2017

Certifications

  • PMP / Project Management Professional

    Project Management Institute

  • PMI-ACP / PMI Agile Certified Practitioner

    Project Management Institute

  • PSM / Professional Scrum Master

    Scrum Organization

  • PSPO / Professional Scrum Product Owner

    Scrum Organization

  • Certified Data Analyst

    Google

  • AWS Certified AI Practitioner

    AWS