Chicago, IL

Alejandro Yepes

Data engineer at Bloomberg. Building automated self-hosted infrastructure on the side.

Industrial engineer by training (UIUC '25), data engineer by profession, builder by habit. I work on company financials data and spend the rest of my time building automated systems. Open to interesting work.

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Projects

AI Portfolio Insights
Retail investors drown in market data with limited time to process it. Built a system that uses LLMs to summarize portfolio activity and surface key insights, with multi-portfolio tracking across accounts — 401k, brokerage, and others in a single view.
LangChainReactExpressTypeScript
Self-Hosted Infrastructure
Personal homelab running on a Hetzner VPS. Nextcloud for file sync, WireGuard VPN tunnel to home network, automated Backblaze B2 backups via rclone, Caddy reverse proxy with automatic TLS. Fully containerized with Docker Compose.
DockerCaddyWireGuardrcloneLinux
Content Automation
Two independent pipelines for automated YouTube video generation and Instagram content creation. Built to explore end-to-end media automation with minimal manual input.
PythonYouTube APIInstagram API

Experience

Data Management Professional · Bloomberg
2025 – Present

Data engineer working on company financials data.

Technical Product Manager · Innovo Markets
2025

Renewable energy certificate exchange. Designed the full technical specification for a new compliance dashboard — data sourcing, formatting, storage architecture, and API surface. Built proof-of-concept scripts demonstrating automated compliance document generation.

CI Engineer · Roskam Foods
2025

Improved product quality and performance through continuous improvement methodologies.

Equity Research · UIUC Investment Management Academy
2023 – 2025

Managed a $1.5M long-only equity portfolio. Conducted equity research on individual stocks, built investment theses, and pitched positions to the fund.

Business Generalist · Electrokare
2024

Built financial models and forecasting frameworks that contributed to a successful seed round.

Notes

A running log of things I'm building, learning, and thinking about — entrepreneurship, engineering, career.

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Contact

Open to full-time roles, freelance engagements, and interesting conversations. Reach out at alejandroyepespulido@gmail.com.