Fernando Pale

Building an end-to-end pipeline ingesting and validating financial data into PostgreSQL and authoring analytical SQL and Streamlit visualizations to compute returns and KPIs across 500+ entities.

Evaluated LLM outputs on undergraduate-level mathematics, identified logical reasoning failures and hallucinations, and authored complex prompts to test model reasoning quality.

Performed quality assurance on English–Spanish parallel datasets for machine translation, ensuring semantic accuracy and consistency across translations.

Handled inbound and outbound calls in English and Spanish, resolved customer inquiries, and documented events and outcomes in Jira while meeting service-level targets.

Tutored undergraduate students in calculus, linear algebra, and classical mechanics, simplifying abstract concepts using first-principles reasoning to improve understanding.

Authored technical lessons (1,000+ words) on finance and physics topics, synthesizing complex concepts into clear, structured content for general audiences.

Pursuing a Bachelor of Engineering in Data Science with emphasis on statistical modeling, data analysis, and practical Python and SQL applications.

Completed a Bachelor of Science in Physics with coursework in differential equations, linear algebra, classical mechanics, and statistical mechanics; thesis in progress at completion.