About me

Daniel Alvarado Peláez
Remote work

Ing. Daniel Alvarado Peláez

I am an Ecuadorian Mechatronics Engineer and Master in Cybersecurity, passionate about technology and innovation. I have extensive experience in the design, development, and implementation of high-impact solutions, integrating software development, cybersecurity, data analysis, and artificial intelligence to solve complex challenges, with a focus on enhancing business productivity through ethical and efficient practices.

My profile combines a solid technical background with the ability to lead technology teams and projects throughout their entire lifecycle: from data ingestion to full-stack development, architecture, automation, and security audits. I am characterized by my analytical mindset, results-driven approach, and adaptability within multidisciplinary and multilingual environments, allowing me to successfully integrate into global and multicultural work dynamics.

Job experience

  1. •

    General Specialist

    Information Tecnology XOA S. A.

    Responsibilities and activities:
    • Full-stack development: design and implementation of secure web applications using modern technologies and coding best practices.
    • Machine Learning model development and integration with company APIs and enterprise services, including production ML pipelines.
    • Data analysis and processing: defining strategies for acquisition, cleaning, preprocessing, and handling large-scale data volumes with specialized tools.
    • Information security: implementing protection measures, code audits, input validation, secure credential management, and service hardening.
    • Security improvements: identifying vulnerabilities, assessing risks, designing mitigation solutions, and ensuring regulatory compliance.
    • Technical support: field work for diagnostics, problem detection, and critical infrastructure issue resolution at client sites.
    • Proactive monitoring: continuous supervision of services, servers, and production applications to ensure availability, performance, and security.
    • Version updates and migrations: planning and implementing secure updates with minimal downtime and comprehensive validation.
    • Internal tool development: creating company-specific services and utilities to optimize operational processes.
    • Quality control: functional, security, and performance testing for embedded systems and web applications before release.
  2. •

    Research Assistant (Development Technician)

    Center for Information Technologies (CTI)

    Responsibilities and activities:
    • Participation in a research project focused on predicting the energy consumption of Data Center infrastructure using Machine Learning techniques.
    • Design and development of Jupyter notebooks for data acquisition, cleaning, preprocessing, and exploratory data analysis from monitoring systems.
    • Implementation, training, and comparative evaluation of different predictive models, using performance metrics to determine the most efficient solution.
    • Optimization and improvement of a data collection application, enhancing the quality, consistency, and availability of information used in analytical models.
    • Collaboration in research activities that contributed to the scientific publication presented at IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF 2022).
  3. •

    Web Developer

    Edu4Lab

    Responsibilities and activities:
    • Development of an educational web platform using Laravel under a scalable and maintainable system architecture.
    • Implementation of user management, profile, and role modules, ensuring proper access control based on user responsibilities.
    • Development of features for managing courses, books, online assessments, and academic staff.
    • Design and integration of business logic and database for centralized management of educational content.
    • Participation in functional testing and requirements validation to ensure proper platform operation.

Projects

Thermal Monitoring Drone

Thermal Monitoring Drone

Description:

CAD designs and Arduino circuits for a drone. CAD designs, circuits, and Raspberry Pi program for an embedded system that detects cable presence, captures thermal images, and detects temperature spikes.

Real-time OPC Simulation

Real-time OPC Simulation

Description:

Real-time circuit simulation, connected via OPC to a LABVIEW interface, for monitoring and control.

Proteus/Ubidots Pump Control

Proteus/Ubidots Pump Control

Description:

Design of a pump system in Proteus, controlled by an Atmega328p, and visualization in Ubidots of the system's status communicated by a program developed in Python.

Knee Prosthesis Adaptation

Knee Prosthesis Adaptation

Description:

3D design of a knee and editing of a total knee prosthesis, using Slice 3D and Blender software to adapt the existing knee prosthesis to the test knee.

LABVIEW Pump Control

LABVIEW Pump Control

Description:

Design of an HMI for the control of a pump system, which has three pumps. Two pumps are primary and the third is backup in case one fails or is disabled for maintenance. Each pump has its start and stop pushbuttons, as well as its enable or disable selector. The system will have manual and automatic operation commanded by the signal sent by a selector.

Dynamic Mechanism Simulation

Dynamic Mechanism Simulation

Description:

A mechanism is designed where the shaft of a mill receives the necessary power and speed through pulley-chains. In turn, the shaft that transmits power to the pulley with chain receives the input power through a set of V-belt pulleys, as well as being supported by 2 bearings.

Rice Stacker Design

Rice Stacker Design

Description:

Design and feasibility analysis of a rice stacker using renewable energy for implementation in a developing agricultural community.

Automatic Pet Feeder

Automatic Pet Feeder

Description:

Automatic pet feeder project controlled by a mobile application that allows scheduling feeding times.

Flexible Manufacturing Process

Flexible Manufacturing Process

Description:

Redesigning the bottle manufacturing system of a company to reduce production times, increase system flexibility, and improve company profitability.

Sugar Production Quality

Sugar Production Quality

Description:

Objective:
Improve sugar production quality system by modifying manufacturing stages to avoid frequent product rejection upon delivery.
Issue:
A sugar-producing plant consists of several stages containing certain processes that make production efficient:
*Crystallization
*Juice delivery and extraction
*Evaporation
*Juice purification
The plant lacks sugar quality controls, so customers want quality tests based on random sampling so that if the product passes the tests, the order is accepted; otherwise, the product will be returned in full regardless of the order size.

Publications

Comparison of Traditional ML Algorithms for Energy Consumption Prediction Models

doi: 10.1109/FNWF55208.2022.00048.

Autores:

R. Estrada, V. Asanza, D. Torres, I. Valeriano and D. Alvarado

Education

  1. •

    Postgraduate, Master in Cybersecurity

    Universidad Casa Grande

    Passed with honors; Cum laude
  2. •

    Higher Education, Mechatronics Engineering

    Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL)

  3. •

    Primary - Secondary Education

    Unidad Educativa FAE Nº2

Skills and tools

  1. Programming languages
    • JAVA
    • Python
    • C/C++
    • HTML
    • JavaScript
    • PHP
    • Node.js
    • Laravel
    • Jupyter Notebook
    • Dataiku
    • Astro
    • Vue.js
  2. Databases
    • MySQL
    • Postgresql
    • MongoDB
    • Redis
    • Meilisearch
    • Supabase
    • MongoDBCompass
    • MongoDB Atlas
    • Laragon
    • XAMPP
    • HeidiSQL
    • PGAdmin4
    • DBeaver
  3. Other development tools
    • Git & GitHub
    • Docker
    • Cloudflare
    • Copilot
    • MATLAB & Simulink
  4. Cybersecurity
    • ISO 27001
    • OWASP Top 10
    • Personal Data Protection Law (Ecuador)
    • OSINT Tools
    • Shodan
    • Vulnerability analysis
    • Risk management
    • Security audits
  5. hardware tools
    • Arduino
    • Raspberry Pi
    • ESP32 - 8266
    • PLC Siemens
    • PLC Logo
  6. Other tools
    • Paquete Office
    • Notion
    • Odoo
    • Claude
    • Copilot
    • Canva
  7. Technical skills
    • Development and programming
    • Analytics and data science
    • 3d design
    • Development of embedded systems
    • Autodesk Inventor
    • Autodesk AutoCAD
    • Automation Studio
    • CADe Simu
    • CCW (Connected Components Workbench)
    • FluidSIM
    • LabVIEW
    • TIA Portal
    • Proteus
    • FlexSim
  8. Personal skills
    • Teamwork
    • Commitment to tasks
    • Learning capacity
    • Orientation to results
  9. Languages
    • Spanish - Native
    • English - C1

Certificates

Courses taken:
  1. •

    Despliegue de MySQL con Docker

  2. •

    Python para data scientist avanzado

  3. •

    Docker esencial

  4. •

    Learning Docker

  5. •

    OPENedX Escritura Académica

  6. •

    Examen CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH PLACEMENT TEST, C1

  7. •

    Cuarta revolución Industrial: Data science

  8. •

    Aprende Excel (Office365/Microsoft365)

  9. •

    Cómo eliminar las distracciones

  10. •

    Cómo conciliar las funciones múltiples del líder

  11. •

    Introducción a la programación en Python

  12. •

    Fundamentos de programación en PLC

  13. •

    Python para data science y big data esencial

  14. •

    MATLAB Onramp

  15. •

    Certificate of Competency in English, ECCE B2

  16. •

    Certificado de graduación, CEN

Drive with certificates

Phrase from an engineer:

God created the Earth, nature, animals, humanity... And the engineer to take care of everything else.

Daniel Alvarado Peláez