Summary
Santiago Cortés is an experienced futures trader and money manager based in Cali, Colombia, with over seven years trading US index futures and an 11-year professional horizon that includes options and forex. He consistently delivers 2–5% monthly returns managing third-party investment accounts at Savage Capital Group, blending disciplined quantitative approaches with market-focused risk management. Educated through a binational business program (Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana and Fachhochschule Münster) and currently advancing programming studies, he pairs finance and international business expertise with practical coding skills in Python, Java, HTML and CSS. Trilingual and commercially minded, he previously supported Latin American sales and market analysis at Volkswagen AG, giving him a rare mix of trading acuity and on-the-ground market strategy. He’s equally comfortable building trading strategies and lightweight tools to automate analysis, reflecting a pragmatic, data-driven approach to markets and product-thinking beyond pure trading.
11 years of coding experience
Business manager (In progress), Finance, marketing, Business manager (In progress), Finance, marketing at Fachhochschule Münster
Mision Tic- programación, Computer Programming, Mision Tic- programación, Computer Programming at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana
Spanish, English, German