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Building intelligent data systems with an AI-first approach.

Industry Recognition

Alex Bolaño featured on Times Square NYC digital billboard

Featured on TopMate's Times Square Digital Billboard

Recognized among the top mentors and consultants on TopMate. Celebrated with a feature on the Times Square digital screen in New York City.

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Mage Hackathon Winner

1st Place - Mage Battlegrounds 24-hour virtual hackathon

Winner of the Mage Battlegrounds Global Hackathon, competing against 130 teams across 15 countries. Recognized for building a breakthrough real-time analytics solution in just 24 hours.

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AWS Lambda Hackathon Honorable Mention

Honorable Mention – AWS Lambda Hackathon

Recognized among 3,700+ global entrants for Smart Clip, a real-time AI video summarizer powered by AWS Lambda and event-driven architecture.

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Featured Articles

Building a YouTube Analytics Agent with Amazon Bedrock and MCP

An end-to-end guide to building an AI agent that analyzes YouTube channel data using Amazon Bedrock and the Model Context Protocol.

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Stop Digging Logs: How to Turn Airflow Failures into Contextual Learning

Transform Airflow failure logs into contextual knowledge using Amazon Bedrock and S3-based vector storage for smarter debugging.

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PivoteaTech

Founder & Creator

Democratizing Salary Data for LATAM

PivoteaTech is a platform and content brand helping tech and non-tech professionals in LATAM negotiate better salaries with real market data — not assumptions. The proof of concept is personal: petroleum engineer → teacher (1× salary) → Senior Data Engineer without a master's degree (24× salary).

  • Salary calculator benchmarked against the Colombian market, LATAM regional data, and remote USD roles
  • Educational content on career transitions, salary negotiation, and breaking into tech

What People Say

Jove Zhong

Jove Zhong

Co-founder @ Timeplus

I am cofounder at timeplus.com and glad to work with Alexander this year. Thank you Alexander for the great support and amazing technical blog about our open source database: Proton. You learn things so fast, communicate so well, and write high quality blogs. Look forward to more collaboration with you in coming year.

Work With Me

Available for Freelance

What I Offer

Data Engineering

End-to-end pipelines, lakehouses, AWS architecture, and modern data stacks tailored to your business needs.

Career Mentorship

Career pivots into tech, salary negotiation strategies, and a roadmap to break into data engineering — with data, not assumptions.

Bogotá, Colombia
alex@pivoteatech.com
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