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Software engineer · Santiago de Chile

Useful software, shown in use.

I'm Roberto. I design and build products where a messy human problem becomes a clear next action — across software, data platforms, and the small tools I ship myself.

Notitas, the first selected product, open in the browserNow playing · Notitas

01 — Work

Six products. Six problems worth opening.

01Creative tool

Notitas

A Spanish-language music workspace for writing, hearing, and exploring notation without friction.

Problem solvedMakes first music-notation experiments approachable by turning note writing into an immediate, playable loop.

Open playnotitas.vercel.app
Notitas open on a staff with one written note and a labeled piano

02Financial clarity

pigzo

A portfolio tracker that turns market movement into a clearer view of personal money.

Problem solvedCloses the gap between raw quotes and useful decisions with positions, performance, allocation, history, and news in one place.

Open pigzo.tellvz.com
pigzo portfolio view with a market chart, allocation, and masked amounts

03Learning game

COTRIX

An educational block-programming game where children guide Cotrix through 2D puzzles.

Problem solvedTeaches sequences and logic without asking children to read code first.

Open playcotrix.vercel.app
COTRIX game scene with the character walking toward a cabin

04Jewelry shop

Tidäwa

A jewelry shop from Santiago, presented as a calm storefront for everyday pieces.

Problem solvedGives a one-person studio a complete place to show the collection, tell the story, and sell.

Open tidawa.tellvz.com
Tidäwa storefront with a jewelry collection and featured pieces

05Personal record

The Horizontal Journal

A newspaper-like journal for recording personal events and reading the patterns back.

Problem solvedTurns a private timeline into a page you can revisit through rhythm, correspondence, and a shared view.

Open horizontal-journal.tellvz.com
The Horizontal Journal shared page with statistics and a weekly chart

06Health utility

sanrt

A family medication workspace for inventory, treatment plans, adherence, and calendar tracking.

Problem solvedReduces the cognitive load of managing recurring treatments across people, prescriptions, and supplies.

Open sanrt.vercel.app
sanrt weekly calendar and an empty timeline for the selected day

02 — Curriculum

Fifteen years between data, software, and teaching.

Computer science engineer focused on data engineering, warehousing, and business intelligence, with additional work in software architecture, university teaching, and consulting across retail, banking, pharmaceuticals, public services, and real estate.

  • Santiago de Chile
  • Spanish, native
  • English, advanced reading and writing
  • ACM member since 2024

Apr 2021 — Present

Sr. Data Engineer

Cencosud Fidelidad · Retail

Governed and automated the corporate data platform across Databricks, Azure Synapse, Data Lake, Power BI, Azure Data Factory, and SQL Server.

  • Implemented CI/CD with Azure DevOps and GitHub, plus infrastructure as code.
  • Strengthened governance and security with Unity Catalog, Azure Key Vault, and managed identities.
  • Coordinated access, FinOps, workshops, and data-governance work across cloud, security, analytics, architecture, and platform teams.

Earlier at Cencosud

Developer Senior

Cencosud Fidelidad · Retail

Built large-scale, multi-source data flows with Pentaho, Apache Hive, SAP HANA, AWS S3, Databricks, and Azure Synapse.

  • Developed pricing solutions reported to generate about $1M in gains for supermarkets in Peru.
  • Contributed to the Azure data lake, naming standards, Power BI cost dashboards, and operational monitoring.

Mar 2020 — Mar 2021

Data Engineer

Plaza S.A. · Retail real estate

Designed metrics and reports for occupancy across 23 shopping centers in three countries, plus customer, marketing, and energy indicators.

  • Tableau, Power BI, BigQuery, Snowflake, and Google Cloud. Led three developers.

May 2019 — Feb 2020

Development Analyst

Cencosud S.A. · Retail

Built recommendation carousels, web analytics integrations, automated sitemaps, backend services, and high-volume data workflows.

  • Pentaho Data Integration, BigQuery, Python, and AWS.

Feb 2018 — May 2019

Software Architect

Seidor Technologies · IT consulting

Managed the Institutional Data Catalog for Chile's General Treasury, led data-governance and API standardization, and delivered an AWS proof of concept.

May 2016 — Feb 2018

Software Engineer Architect

Tutorial SpA · IT consulting

Consulted for Mintlab, VivoCorp, and Banco Falabella on pharmaceutical production, business intelligence, lease approvals, and automation.

  • Pentaho, Oracle BI, Power BI, MicroStrategy, Odoo, and tax and payroll integrations.

Sep 2009 — Sep 2016

Professor, BI specialist, developer

Universidad de las Ciencias Informáticas · Education

Taught data structures, compilers, data warehousing, and BI. Built reports, OLAP views, warehouses, and distributed Java platforms.

  • Led decision-support projects for Cuban government institutions and supervised more than ten bachelor's theses.
  • Worked with Pentaho, QlikView, Tableau, Talend, and the broader BI reporting stack.

Education

Informatics Engineer

Universidad de las Ciencias Informáticas · Havana · June 2009

Teaching

Professor, 2009—2016

Undergraduate data structures, compilers, warehousing, and BI. Postgraduate courses in analysis, Pentaho, and security. Supervised 16 bachelor's projects.

Certifications

  • Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst AssociateMicrosoft · Aug 2024
  • Business Intelligence Foundation Professional CertificationCertiprof · Aug 2024
  • Tata Data Visualisation job simulationForage · Aug 2024
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Data FundamentalsMicrosoft · Apr 2023
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure FundamentalsMicrosoft · Mar 2023
  • Tableau Certified Data AnalystTableau · Jan 2023
  • Neo4j Certified ProfessionalNeo4j · Oct 2022
  • Tableau Desktop SpecialistTableau · Jun 2020
  • Data Visualization with TableauUC Davis · Apr 2020
  • Data Warehousing for Business IntelligenceUniversity of Colorado · Oct 2017

Publications

  1. Graph-based data integration from bioactive peptide databases of pharmaceutical interest.Bioinformatics, 35(22), 2019 · DOI 10.1093/bioinformatics/btz260
  2. Overlap and diversity in antimicrobial peptide databases: a non-redundant set of sequences.Bioinformatics, 31(15), 2015 · DOI 10.1093/bioinformatics/btv180

03 — Contact

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