Martín Álvarez

Developer, Engineer, & Problem Solver

About Me

Systems & Computing Engineering and Industrial Engineering student at Universidad de Los Andes. Interested in transforming companies through the use of data to make better decisions. Knowledge in Business Intelligence, Statistics, and Machine Learning. Co-founded and directed the student union of analytics (Analytics Club).

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Education

B.S. Industral Engineering
  • Relevant Coursework: Data Structures, Object-Oriented Programming, Algorithms, Computer Architecture, Machine Learning.
B.S. Systems and Computing Engineering
  • Relevant Coursework: Advanced Excel, Finance, Probability & Statistics, Logistics & Production, Organizational Strategy.

Work Experience

Memorias
  • Led a multidisciplinary team in the construction of a digital marketplace (MVP) for market testing in the Colombian funeral industry.
Universidad de los Andes
  • Taught a group of 50 students each semester and delivered basic programming concepts for data analysis with VBA and SQL.
  • Obtained good results in the course evaluation surveys which measure students’ satisfaction.

Other Activities

Analytics Club
  • Co-founded the first student union at the Universidad de Los Andes specialized in analytics with more than 50 active members.
  • Coordinated and participated in analytics projects for Colombian startups such as LQN and Menüp.
  • Organized conferences and workshops about Business Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Data Science, and Machine Learning.
Inovation Summer Bootcamp
  • Organized an innovation Bootcamp at Universidad de Los Andes in which 21 teams of students from different disciplines designed solutions for small and medium companies in Colombia.

Projects

Machine learning model
CNN for Room Clasification

Trained a convolutional neural network that is able to classify images of different types of rooms.

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Real Estate Pricing Model

Built a machine learning model based on deep neural networks to predict the value of properties using quantitative data and images.

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MVP Development

Developed the digital MVP to validate business hypotesis for a project in the funeral sector.