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Alejandro Urriago, CFA

Alejandro Urriago, CFA

Data Engineer

Synechron Australia | Sydney

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Introduction to Power BI

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Data Analyst

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Introduction to Power BI

Quantitative detective, uncovering the truth hidden in the depths of data.

My Work

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Introduction to Power BI

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Data Visualization in Power BI

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Introduction to DAX in Power BI

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Introduction to Power BI

My Certifications

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Other Certificates

Microsoft Azure Data Engineer Associate

Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst Associate

Databricks Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional.

AWS AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate

CFA CFA Institute Charterholder

DataCamp Course Completion

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Courses

Introduction to Power BI
Introduction to DAX in Power BI
Data Visualization in Power BI
Database Design

My Work Experience

Where I've interned and worked during my career.

Synechron Australia | May 2022 - Present

Data Engineer

• Built scalable, reusable, and parameter-driven data pipelines using control tables and metadata frameworks to ensure consistency, maintainability, and efficient replication across environments. • Designed and delivered end-to-end data pipelines in Azure Databricks to process diverse data sources including APIs, CSV, and JSON files. • Designed and optimized SQL Server relational databases, applying normalization principles and extending with stored procedures, triggers, and semantic models. • Automated orchestration and scheduling through Azure Data Factory pipelines and triggers, ensuring reliability, observability, and dependency control across ETL workloads. • Architected and modelled Lakehouse and data-warehouse solutions within Azure Data Lake Gen2, applying robust data-modelling and management practices across raw, curated, and analytics layers. • Established CI/CD and DevSecOps workflows with Git integration and Azure DevOps to automate deployments, testing, and configuration management for Databricks and pipeline assets. • Implemented data governance and lineage frameworks using Unity Catalog and external locations to strengthen compliance, access control, and centralized metadata management. • Produced analytics-ready datasets and developed interactive Power BI reports with row-level security and controlled external sharing, ensuring secure, compliant, and data-driven insights through executive-level dashboards.
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Skandia Superannuation Fund | Feb 2016 - Dec 2017

Investment and Economic Manager - Skandia Superannuation Fund

• Strategic Asset Allocation: Designed strategic asset allocation frameworks using Hierarchical Risk Parity (HRP), leveraging hierarchical clustering of asset correlations and incorporating portfolio manager views across multiple risk profiles. • Investment Performance Attribution: Designed and implemented performance attribution frameworks that quantitatively decompose active returns relative to benchmarks into allocation, selection, interaction, implementation/transaction, and residual effects, enabling robust evaluation of investment decisions and execution quality across multi-asset portfolios. • Economic Research: Developed macroeconomic forecasts for inflation, interest rates, GDP, and exchange rates using econometric time-series techniques, regime analysis, and scenario-based stress testing to inform asset allocation and risk management. • Fixed Income Research: Identified under- and overvalued fixed income securities using term-structure and relative-value pricing models, incorporating monetary and fiscal policy expectations, yield-curve dynamics, and spread decomposition to assess carry, roll-down, and valuation signals. • Asset Liability Management (ALM): Implemented ALM frameworks incorporating duration and convexity immunization, cash-flow matching, and duration-gap analysis to support pension payment planning under interest-rate risk, cash-flow uncertainty and reinvestment risk scenarios.

Colfondos Superannuation Fund | Nov 2014 - Nov 2015

Director of Economic Research and Investment Portfolio Strategies

• Strategic Asset Allocation: Led the Strategic Asset Allocation process for managed funds by synthesizing macroeconomic research, quantitative analysis, and portfolio manager views into investment committee–ready allocation recommendations. • Economic Research: Analyzed macroeconomic and market indicators to inform investment strategy and presented the fund’s economic outlook and investment perspectives to investment committees and external stakeholders at industry events and conferences. • Investment Performance Attribution: Applied a performance attribution process for multi-asset portfolios, estimating asset-class and risk-factor contributions, and incorporating attribution results into portfolio-level performance analysis and reporting.

Colfondos Superannuation Fund | Apr 2011 - Nov 2014

Senior Quantitative Market Risk Analyst

• Value at Risk (VaR): Calculated and reported Value at Risk (VaR) to financial regulators, with ongoing stress testing and back-testing based on historical events and simulated scenarios. • Volatility Modeling: Developed and applied econometric volatility models, including GARCH-family models, EWMA, stochastic volatility, and realized volatility approaches. • Financial Risk Management: Built internal econometric models for market risk, liquidity risk, and counterparty derivatives risk, complementing regulatory frameworks. • Pricing Models: Developed pricing models for structured products, cross-currency swaps, asset-backed securities, and exotic derivatives, supporting price discovery and validation of third-party vendor models.

My Education

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Master of Computer Science – AI Specialisation in AI and Machine LearningUNSW | 2027
Mathematics for Machine Learning in MathematicsImperial College London | 2024
Python 3 Programming Specialization in PythonUniversity of Michigan | 2024
SQL Nanodegree Program, Data Science  · (noviembre de 2021 - marzo deUdacity | 2022
Economics in EconomicsPontificia Universidad Javeriana | 2009

About Me

Alejandro Urriago, CFA

Alejandro is a CFA charterholder, quantitative developer, and data engineer with expertise in capital markets and derivative strategies. His interests focus on systematic investing and the application of AI and machine learning to investment manageme

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