Experience

Christian Vega.

Data & AI Technical Lead. I build production ML and LLM systems for the regulated healthcare and payer space.

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 AI and LLM automation work. Scope and delivery are mine, and I architect the systems myself.

I've also built and shipped three products of my own, start to finish: a procurement-intelligence product over 1.24M government contracts, an ML pricing model whose 80% prediction intervals hold at 79.6%, and a business platform running on AWS. All three are live, so you can try them yourself: nidopr.app, licitapr.com, and vizlogic.tech.

Based in Puerto Rico (U.S.), so I'm authorized to work in the U.S. and ready for remote. Bilingual, English and Spanish.

No public GitHub. I work with regulated healthcare and client data, so the code stays private. The live products are the proof, and I'm 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, LLM integration

  • Built and shipped an internal LLM tool, now in HIPAA production at Optum, that drafts Business Requirements Documents (BRDs) and data-dictionary context. It's generated 47 documents since launch, each of which used to take an analyst a few hours by hand.
  • Leading the AI and LLM automation workstream. Set the architecture and prompt standards, and drive the work to production with stakeholders across several teams.
  • Designed and taught a data-analytics course for non-technical supervisors and managers, so they could work with the data directly instead of waiting on the technical team.
  • Directing the migration of legacy systems onto a modern platform built around automation and LLMs.

Founder & Principal

Vizlogic (vizlogic.tech, concurrent) Jan 2024 – Present

Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL/pgvector (HNSW), LightGBM, Nuxt 3, TypeScript, Docker, AWS (Lightsail / ECS Fargate), Cloudflare

  • Run an independent, self-funded data and AI practice. Three live products, owned outright from architecture through production.
  • LicitaPR (live at licitapr.com): a procurement-intelligence product over 1.24M government contracts from six source systems, about 90% of everything on record. Splink dedupes 422K vendor records down to 345K real entities, and GPU OCR digitizes the scanned bills. A 62-check QA harness has to pass in full before a release ships.
  • Nidopr (live at nidopr.app): an ML pricing model built from the feature pipeline through to monitored inference. The 80% prediction intervals hold at 79.6%, and model bias is down from +44% to +5%. It indexes about 64,000 listings a night from 10+ sources, searchable through hybrid retrieval (pgvector/HNSW embeddings plus full-text).
  • Runs unattended in production: 34 nightly jobs (one uses an LLM to turn messy listing descriptions into clean structured records), 40 health checks that alert me by phone, Discord, or email, and an auto-poster that runs an OCR safety check on each photo before it posts.
  • FT-OS (live on AWS): a full small-business operating system with a visual builder, POS, kitchen display, inventory, and admin, shipped behind a 148-check QA gate.

Data Analyst

TrueNorth Corporation (client: PRASA, the PR 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 job with one automated ETL pipeline in SSIS and Python. The old version had an analyst stitching together several data silos, with help from a developer and other departments.
  • Built the data pipelines and BI dashboards that moved PRASA's operational reporting from manual to near-real-time.
  • REST API integrations pulled external sources into the warehouse, widening dashboard coverage and improving accuracy.
  • Automated reporting with MSSQL, Python, and SSRS, cutting report-generation time by about 30%.
  • Led data-governance work across PRASA's analytics: 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%.
  • Ran query testing and validation on Snowflake data models (SSIS) to certify the reporting structures.
  • Planned deployments and test cases with cross-functional teams, which sped up releases by about 20%, and tightened API testing to cut unresolved bugs by about 15%.

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, and brought compliance up to 95%.
  • Ran data-integrity audits with SSIS and IBM Cognos that cut regulatory reporting errors by about 10%, and built Tableau dashboards that sped up claims and inquiry resolution by about 25%.
  • Kept the work compliant with HIPAA and Medicare Parts C and D through data-governance policies and encryption.

Skills

Leadership & Delivery

Data & AI strategyProject & delivery leadershipCross-functional stakeholder managementTechnical direction & architecture reviewRoadmaps & delivery ownershipData governance & compliance programsTeam enablement & mentoring

Machine Learning & AI

Machine Learning (LightGBM / gradient boosting)Conformal prediction / calibrated prediction intervalsModel evaluation & back-testing (Diebold-Mariano)Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)Vector search (pgvector / HNSW)Embeddings & hybrid retrievalLLM integration (Azure OpenAI, Snowflake Cortex, Ollama)Agentic / multi-agent orchestrationEntity resolution (Splink)OCR (Tesseract / EasyOCR)Model deployment & monitoring (MLOps / LLMOps)

Data Engineering & Pipelines

PythonSQL (advanced)ETL / ELTData pipelines (production-grade)Azure Data FactorySSISdbtREST API integrationResumable / idempotent crawlersWeb scraping (Playwright / Patchright)Data modelingData quality

Data Platforms & Warehousing

SnowflakeData warehousingPostgreSQL (pgvector, FTS)MSSQL ServerMySQLGoogle BigQueryAWS Data LakeSQLite

Cloud, MLOps & Production Ops

AWS (Lightsail; ECS Fargate + EFS)Azure (Data Factory, DevOps)DockerCI/CD (git push-to-deploy)cron / systemd schedulingCustom Python health checks & alertingCloudflare (Tunnel, Pages, DNS)Production monitoring / observabilityIncident root-cause analysis (RCA)Restore-verified backups (restic)

BI, Governance & Compliance

Power BITableauLookerSSRSEChartsHIPAAMedicare Parts C & DData governanceMetadata managementData securityAutomated testing & validation

Languages & Domain

PythonSQLTypeScript / JavaScript (Nuxt 3 / Vue)PowerShellBashHealthcare / payer data (Optum, Humana)Regulated / high-stakes dataBilingual EN/ES

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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Open to Data & AI technical-lead and leadership roles, and to Vizlogic consulting engagements.