About

An economist first. A builder by conviction.

I build data products that solve business problems —and I know which problems are worth solving because I'm an economist before I'm an engineer.

Today I'm a consultant at ECLAC (United Nations), designing database architecture and contributing to economic modeling across the International Trade and Integration Division. In parallel, I work independently with companies and NGOs in Chile and abroad.

Before leading teams, I spent years generating data from scratch: surveying fishermen in coastal Chile, building relational databases for SMEs I co-founded, and scraping job boards to build labor market intelligence platforms. That path —from fieldwork to cloud architecture— shapes how I think: business context first, then infrastructure, then models.

My foundation is applied economics: a master's degree, econometrics and causal inference, plus a patent that uses deep learning to analyze educational trajectories. I believe most companies say they need data scientists when they actually need economists who can build. That's exactly what I do.

Tomás Fernández
Now
Consultant · ECLAC (UN)
Foundation
Master's in Economics
Research
Patent · deep learning
Location
Santiago, Chile · Remote

What I work on

  • AI & RAG systems in production
  • Custom web applications
  • Data architecture & systematization
  • Economic modeling & causal inference
  • Impact studies & international trade
  • AI training for teams

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