Alberto Cardenas
I build solutions where data, code and curiosity intersect: high-performance pipelines, Rust-powered tools, digital products, and projects that explore both measurable reality and what we still don’t fully understand.
// active_profile: data scientist, data engineer & anomaly storyteller
// current_stack → AI + Data + Edge-case research
Core projects
Most of what I do lives at the intersection of data, performance and curiosity. These are some of the projects that currently concentrate my work in consulting, engineering and product building.
Consulting and build work in data pipelines, ML and advanced analytics for companies that want to make decisions from real data, not just pretty dashboards.
A data and API engine powered by Rust, designed to accelerate ETLs, backend services and heavy processing without forcing you to abandon Python, PHP or NodeJS.
A platform to map and understand conventions, festivals and fandoms with data: location, audience, impact and opportunities for brands and creators.
Narratives, data & anomalies
I write about technology, data, alternative history and topics that usually live outside traditional scientific papers. From speculative fiction to applied analytics and visualization.
A narrative exploration of myths, artifacts and questions that connect history, astronomy and what some would call “forbidden” ideas. A project where scientific curiosity meets storytelling.
Publications on visualization, data and other topics where engineering meets curiosity. A mix of practice, storytelling and uncomfortable questions.
Paranormal investigations
Outside the corporate world and “clean” datasets, I invest time in studying anomalous phenomena: apparitions, UAP, strange cases and stories that deserve more than a quick “it can’t be real”.
A multimedia platform dedicated to paranormal phenomena, real stories and experiments where narrative blends with audio, video and, increasingly, with data.
A project in progress to formalize parapsychological and anomalous research in the Rio Grande Valley, connecting local cases with serious methodologies.
Read my latest posts
Sometimes code isn’t enough to tell a story. That’s where newsletters and essays come in: reflections on data, AI, career, strange experiments and the border between science and anomaly.
Long-form essays on data, tech career paths, projects, mental models and experiments around scientific curiosity and the unknown.
More technical and hands-on articles: guides, walkthroughs and experiments in programming, data analysis and the tools I use every day.