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Alejandro Alva

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Senior Technical Product Manager leading machine learning, data and analytics platforms — bridging engineering, data science and business to ship products that scale.

7+ Years in Product & Data
4+ Ventures Founded
MSc Computer Science
20+ Technologies in the Stack
2 Fintech Unicorn-track Cos.

Professional Experience

Kueski ACTIVE

Sr. Technical Product Manager — ML, Data & Analytics Engineering

Mexico City

The #1 BNPL and micro-lending platform in Mexico, trusted by Amazon and 500+ merchants.

  • Lead development and scaling of ML and data platforms supporting Data Science, Analytics and Engineering teams.
  • Drive feature-engineering standardization, model operations optimization and platform scalability for real-time and batch use cases.
  • Own the data platform roadmap — expanding data-lake use cases while ensuring availability, reliability and scalability.
  • Enable Kafka-based CDC for data replication; oversee real-time and batch pipeline development.
  • Champion CI/CD, modular architectures and automated monitoring & observability standards.

Teampay

Product Manager

Guadalajara

Distributed spend-management platform with total control and visibility over spending.

  • Sole Product Manager after the acquisition by Paystand, spearheading end-to-end product development.
  • Directed and aligned a globally distributed team to ensure seamless execution and delivery.

Paystand

Product Manager

Guadalajara

Open infrastructure for B2B payments used by 550K+ businesses. First US–LATAM unicorn.

  • 0→1: owned development and operations of a new expense-management and corporate-card product from day one.
  • Deeply technical: API design, algorithm discussions and database architecture.
  • Coordinated development workflows on Agile methodology.

AINDA Consultores

Business Consultant

Mexico City

Advisory firm specialized in energy and infrastructure.

  • Fundraising support for new ventures — valuation, market assessment, capitalization.
  • Co-led Oil & Gas projects across the Americas (US, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil).
  • Built an upstream O&G valuation platform in Python using data analytics and ML.

Arthur D. Little

Research Analyst

Mexico City

The world's first consultancy, at the forefront of innovation since 1886.

  • Consulting cases for the Energy & Utilities, TIME and Financial Services practices.
  • Business development for the Energy & Utilities and Financial Services practices.

Ventures

Buqueo ↗

2026 — Present

Co-founder of an automatic booking system for health services and other appointment-based small & medium businesses.

AIPicks ↗

2023 — Present

Machine learning platform for sports statistics, predictive analytics and gaming — Quiniela & Survivor pools. End-to-end data & ML pipelines: ingestion, feature engineering, training, evaluation and deployment — with real-time modeling for sports analytics.

Meltum

2020 — Present

Blockchain investment fund managing assets directly on the blockchain network.

Quantum

2019 — Present

Python algorithmic trading on crypto exchange APIs and the Polymarket API, with risk-management best practices.

Advisory & Consulting

I take on a limited number of advisory and consulting engagements — for startups and teams that need senior product and data leadership without the full-time hire.

ML & Data Platform Advisory

Platform roadmaps, MLOps and feature-engineering standards, real-time and batch pipeline architecture, data-lake strategy, observability — turning data teams into product engines.

Product Strategy & 0→1 Delivery

Technical product management for fintech, payments and data products: from discovery and roadmap to shipping with globally distributed engineering teams.

Analytics, Valuation & Finance

Predictive analytics, financial modeling and valuation tooling — grounded in strategy-consulting, VC and energy-sector experience across the Americas.

Book an engagement // open to fractional & project-based work

Tech Stack

Languages & ML

PythonTypeScriptJavaScriptSQLRScikit-learnPandasMatlab

Frameworks

SvelteReactDjangoFastAPI

Data & Cloud

AWS LambdaSageMakerDynamoDBPostgresMySQLKafka / CDC

Platform

LinuxBash / SSHGitCI/CDAPIsObservability

Education

ITAM

MSc in Computer Science

Machine Learning, Computational Statistics, Algorithm Analysis, Advanced Operating Systems, Computer Architecture, Compilers, Distributed Computing, Complexity & Computability.

ITAM

BA in Economics, Finance specialization

Blockchain, macroeconomic data, market analysis, private equity, venture capital, financial economics, strategy consulting.

VŠE Prague

Public Finance, Econometrics, Macroeconomics II, International Trade.

LANGUAGES // Spanish (native)English (fluent)Mandarin (A1)

Let's build something.

Advisory and consulting engagements, ML platforms, data products, or a wild venture idea — my inbox is open.

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