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Rubén Solano

Background

Experience

Professional, freelance and academic background. Anything confidential is described only at a high level.

Background

  1. Mar 2026 – Sep 2026 · Internship

    Ebury

    Data Analyst / Analytics Engineering · Financial Crime team

    Analytics engineering at a fintech, on customer-risk and financial-crime data.

    • Development and maintenance of SQL and dbt pipelines on BigQuery.
    • End-to-end pipeline to normalise transaction-monitoring source data for one region and prepare it for analysis and review.
    • Consolidated analytical structure combining data from several regions.
    • Maintenance and improvement of data models used in customer-risk analysis; reusable core models over standardised records.
    • Reporting models in Looker and Sigma.
    • Python pipelines incorporating large language models (LLMs).
    • Optimised the daily rebuild of a model (Airflow-related process): from about 20 to about 2 minutes, ≈ 90 % faster.
    • Took part in data validation, documentation, reconciliation and code review.
  2. 2025 · Internship

    Caja Rural de Granada

    Cash Operations internship

    Banking and treasury operations.

    • Banking and treasury operations and reconciliation.
    • SEPA and foreign exchange.
    • KYC, AML and fraud-prevention activities.
  3. 2020 – present

    Freelance

    Python, data and machine learning developer

    Analytics, machine learning and automation projects for international clients. 11 contracts completed on Upwork with several 5-star reviews.

    • Image segmentation for machine learning and computer-vision systems.
    • Playing-card recognition.
    • Marketing analytics and predictive modelling.
    • Improvements to analytical Python code for a Swiss investment fund.

Confidentiality note: no client data, proprietary code, internal architectures or private datasets are published.

Education

  1. 2025 – ongoing

    Universidad de Málaga

    MSc in Economic and Business Analysis

    Ongoing programme.

  2. Completed 2025

    Universidad de Málaga

    Bachelor's Degree in Economics

    Economic analysis, statistics, quantitative reasoning and financial analysis.

Certifications

  • NVIDIA Deep Learning — Certificate of Competency

    February 2025

Languages

  • Spanish

    Native

  • English

    Certified B2

Technologies and level of evidence

I distinguish how I have used each technology. Not everything on this list has been used in production with clients.

  • Professional work
  • Freelance / clients
  • Personal project
  • Studies / learning

Data engineering

Pipelines, modelling and data quality.

  • Python(Professional work, Freelance / clients)
  • SQL(Professional work)
  • BigQuery(Professional work)
  • dbt(Professional work, Personal project)
  • Apache Airflow(Professional work, Personal project)
  • DuckDB(Personal project)
  • ELT / ETL(Professional work)
  • Data modeling(Professional work, Personal project)
  • Data quality(Professional work, Personal project)
  • Data validation(Professional work)
  • Git / GitHub(Professional work, Personal project)
  • CI/CD(Personal project)

AI and machine learning

Models, LLMs, retrieval and vision.

  • PyTorch(Studies / learning, Freelance / clients)
  • scikit-learn(Freelance / clients)
  • LLM(Professional work, Personal project)
  • OpenAI API(Personal project)
  • Anthropic API(Personal project)
  • Embeddings(Personal project)
  • Retrieval systems(Personal project)
  • Computer vision(Freelance / clients, Personal project)
  • YOLO(Personal project)
  • OCR(Personal project)
  • Predictive modeling(Freelance / clients, Personal project)
  • NLP(Personal project)

Analytics and BI

Analysis, statistics and reporting.

  • pandas(Freelance / clients)
  • NumPy(Freelance / clients)
  • Looker(Professional work)
  • Sigma(Professional work)
  • Power BI(Studies / learning)
  • Statistical analysis(Freelance / clients, Studies / learning)
  • Time series(Personal project)
  • Marketing analytics(Freelance / clients)
  • Financial analytics(Studies / learning, Professional work)
  • R(Studies / learning)
  • Stata(Studies / learning)

Engineering and infrastructure

Environments, integration and cloud.

  • Linux(Personal project, Freelance / clients)
  • Bash(Personal project)
  • Docker(Personal project)
  • API integrations(Freelance / clients, Personal project)
  • Google Cloud(Professional work)
  • AWS(Personal project)

Shall we talk about what you want to improve?

Tell me about your case. I'll reply personally and tell you honestly whether I can help and how I would approach it.