Summary
Alfonso Oviedo is a data-driven co-founder and economist with 12 years of experience building BI, FP&A, and forecasting solutions that turn complex financial and operational data into clear strategic actions. He leads ALSA BI Solutions to design custom dashboards, forecasting tools, and financial models for founders and CFOs, blending rigorous economic theory with practical analytics. As a lecturer and PhD candidate in economics, he brings deep expertise in macroeconomic modeling and teaches students to apply R, Python, and Stata to real-world policy and business questions. His background spans hands-on data engineering—web scraping, cleaning large datasets, and building clustering and NLP models—to product-focused reporting using Power BI, Looker Studio, and BigQuery. Comfortable at the intersection of academia and industry, Alfonso consistently aligns technical solutions with business needs and has a demonstrated knack for translating theoretical models into operational metrics. He is also an active lifelong learner with interests in education, electronics, and open source community events, which informs a collaborative, curiosity-driven approach to problem solving.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Specialization Economics Minor Mathematics and Statistics, B.A. Specialization Economics Minor Mathematics and Statistics at Concordia University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Economics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Economics at Toronto Metropolitan University
Postgraduate Degree, Data Science for Social and Business Analytics, Postgraduate Degree, Data Science for Social and Business Analytics at Universitat de Barcelona
Spanish, English, French