Experience

Christian Vega.

Senior Data Analyst · Data & AI Engineer. I build and operate data systems end to end — pipelines, models, LLM automation and the apps on top. Three of them are live in production.

Six years in regulated healthcare, payer and government data at Optum, Humana and PRASA, all under HIPAA and Medicare Parts C and D. At Optum I lead the LLM-automation work; an internal tool I built runs in HIPAA production.

Through Vizlogic I have designed, built and operated three products of my own — a procurement-intelligence platform over 1.37M government contracts, an ML-priced real-estate marketplace, and a multi-tenant SaaS for food businesses — each one live: licitapr.com, nidopr.app and demo.streetos.app.

U.S. citizen based in Puerto Rico (a U.S. territory) — authorized to work anywhere in the U.S., no sponsorship needed; remote-ready (Atlantic Time, UTC−4). Bilingual, English and Spanish.

No public GitHub — the work is regulated healthcare and client data, so the code stays private. The live products are the proof, and I am happy to walk through the architecture and the evaluation work.

Professional experience

Senior Data Analyst

Optum (UnitedHealth Group) Mar 2025 – Present

Python, SQL, Snowflake, Azure Data Factory, Azure OpenAI, Snowflake Cortex

  • Built and shipped an internal LLM tool, now in HIPAA production, that drafts Business Requirements Documents and data-dictionary context — work that used to take an analyst hours per document.
  • Lead the AI and LLM automation workstream: architecture, prompt and evaluation standards, and delivery to production with stakeholders across several teams.
  • Directing the migration of legacy reporting onto a modern, automation-first platform.
  • Designed and taught a data-analytics course for non-technical supervisors and managers, so they work with the data directly instead of waiting on the technical team.

Founder & Principal

Vizlogic — independent data & AI practice (concurrent) Jan 2024 – Present

Python, FastAPI, Flask, PostgreSQL/pgvector, LightGBM, Nuxt 3, TypeScript, Docker, AWS, Cloudflare, Linux

  • Three products designed, built and operated end to end — data model, pipelines, backend, front end, deployment, and the production ops that keep them serving users daily.
  • LicitaPR (licitapr.com): procurement intelligence over 1.37M government contracts from 34 sources — resumable crawlers, entity resolution, OCR of scanned documents, nightly data-quality checks and a release-gating test suite.
  • Nidopr (nidopr.app): ~64,000 listings refreshed nightly from 10+ sources; a LightGBM valuation model with calibrated 80% prediction intervals and a back-testing trust gate; hybrid semantic search (pgvector + full-text); unattended nightly jobs with health checks that alert by phone.
  • StreetOS (demo.streetos.app): multi-tenant SaaS for food businesses — ordering, kitchen display, inventory, Puerto Rico sales tax by item class and end-of-day close — one isolated instance per tenant, behind an automated QA gate.

Data Analyst

TrueNorth Corporation (client: PRASA, the Puerto Rico Aqueduct & Sewer Authority) Jan 2023 – Feb 2025

MSSQL Server, SSIS, ETL, Python, Power BI, SSRS, REST APIs

  • Led the technical delivery of PRASA's water-balance automation: set direction for a small team (an analyst, two developers and a PM) and coordinated 20 stakeholders across departments.
  • Replaced a two-month manual process with one automated ETL pipeline in SSIS and Python.
  • Built the pipelines, REST API integrations and BI / KPI dashboards that moved operational reporting from manual to near-real-time; automated reporting cut generation time by about 30%.
  • Led data-governance work across the analytics estate: integrity, security and compliance.

Quality Analyst

Next Level Solutions Jun 2021 – Dec 2022

SQL, Postman, Snowflake, SSIS, SSMS, Azure DevOps

  • Built automated test frameworks in SQL and Postman that cut manual testing time by about 30%.
  • Validated Snowflake data models and reporting structures; planned deployments and test cases with cross-functional teams, tightening API testing and speeding up releases.

Compliance Leader

Humana (Medicare Advantage) Apr 2019 – May 2021

SQL, Power Automate, SSIS, IBM Cognos, Tableau

  • Led compliance work, automating audit workflows and data validation with SQL and Power Automate; brought compliance up to 95%.
  • Ran data-integrity audits (SSIS, IBM Cognos) and built Tableau dashboards that sped up claims and inquiry resolution, all under HIPAA and Medicare Parts C and D.

Skills

Data engineering

Python SQL (advanced) ETL / ELT data pipelines data modeling dimensional modeling data warehousing data quality & testing Azure Data Factory SSIS dbt REST API integration web scraping (Playwright) scheduling & orchestration (cron / systemd) CI/CD Git

Platforms & cloud

Snowflake PostgreSQL (pgvector, full-text search) MSSQL Server MySQL SQLite Google Cloud (BigQuery) AWS (Lightsail, ECS Fargate, S3 data lake / CloudFront) Azure (Data Factory, DevOps) Docker Linux Cloudflare (Tunnel, DNS)

Machine learning & AI

LightGBM / gradient boosting calibrated prediction intervals (conformal prediction) model evaluation & back-testing statistics (hypothesis testing, calibration) LLM integration (Azure OpenAI, Snowflake Cortex, Ollama) retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) embeddings & vector search prompt & evaluation standards LLM guardrails & output validation agentic workflows entity resolution (Splink) OCR (Tesseract / EasyOCR) model deployment & monitoring (MLOps / LLMOps)

Analytics, BI & governance

Power BI Tableau Looker SSRS ECharts KPI dashboards & metrics definition HIPAA PHI handling Medicare Parts C & D data governance metadata management data security automated testing & validation

Software & operations

FastAPI Flask SQLAlchemy Nuxt 3 / Vue TypeScript / JavaScript PowerShell Bash production monitoring & alerting performance profiling incident root-cause analysis restore-verified backups

Leadership

technical direction & architecture review design docs & documentation stakeholder communication delivery ownership mentoring & training bilingual English / Spanish

Certifications

  • Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate (AI-102), in progress
  • IBM Data Science Specialization
  • Python Developer, Zero to Mastery

Education

  • Associate's Degree in Biotechnology, 2016

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Available for consulting engagements through Vizlogic, and open to senior data, analytics and AI engineering roles — remote, U.S.