AWS Community Hero • Available for consulting

12+ Years Building in
AWS & Cloud

CTO • Cloud Architect • AI/FinOps Builder • Founder of SOFE & FinOptix • Co-founder BrickstoreAI

🔗 LinkedIn𝕏 @ccortezb✉ carlos@cortez.cloud

FinOptix

sofe.dev

Founder & Builder (2026)

  • • SOFE — Policy-as-code FinOps engine (PyPI, Docker, CLI, GitHub Action)
  • • SaaS platform: platform.sofe.dev (9 pages, billing, topology)
  • • 17 AWS collectors, 20 policies, scheduled evaluations, alerts
  • • FinOptix-14B — fine-tuned 14B SLM (HuggingFace, open weights)

BrickstoreAI

brickstore.ai

Co-founder & Principal Architect (2024)

  • • BYaML — open protocol for cloud architecture metadata
  • • Schema v0.3 at schema.byaml.org (58 types, 25 relationships)
  • • byaml-finops-mcp: MCP server on PyPI (9 tools, AWS FinOps)
  • • VS Code extension on Marketplace (syntax, validation)
Oct 2025 – Present
CTO & Principal Solutions Architect
BWIT Perú
  • • Cloud strategy for enterprise AWS clients (public sector, banking, education)
  • • AI/GenAI strategy (RAG, agents, Strands SDK)
  • • Pre-sales & go-to-market, partnership with AWS & Ingram Micro
  • • Managing ~$1M ARR across 4 enterprise accounts
May 2025
Tech Head AWS Studio
Orion LATAM
  • • Managed AWS team for Chile, Peru, Colombia ($17M forecast)
  • • Built AI Platform for tariff services (Next.js, NestJS, Docker)
  • • Speaker at international events (Seattle, Peru, Chile, Brazil)
Feb 2024 – Present
Principal Solutions Architect
BrickstoreAI Sydney
  • • Created BYaML protocol for Augmented DevOps with AI
  • • GenAI platform (LangChain, Bedrock, SageMaker, LLMOps)
  • • RAG architecture, SLMs, vector DBs, prompt engineering
Sep 2022 – Oct 2024
Solutions Architect Lead
CyberCX Sydney
  • • Secure AWS Landing Zones for public sector (Terraform, CFN)
  • • Cloud modernization AWS/Azure (Serverless & Containers)
  • • AI/NLP for healthcare cybersecurity
  • • AWS Connect call center automation (CDK, Terraform, Twilio)
Mar 2022 – Aug 2022
Hyperscale Solutions Architect (AWS)
AC3 Sydney
  • • Complex cloud infra (AWS, CDK, CI/CD pipelines)
  • • Infrastructure automation & cost optimization

Tech Lead Cloud Architect

Globant

Peru

FinTech, Terraform, Lambda, DevSecOps

Lead Solution Architect

CENNTI Cloud

Peru & Chile

AI/ML mining/healthcare, AWS Advanced Partner

Senior Cloud Architect

BGH Tech Partner

Chile

COVID-19 analytics, ETL, MLOps

Lead Migration Architect

Nubox

Chile

Full on-prem→AWS (18yr data), multi-country

AI & Cloud Architect

In Motion Group

Chile & Peru

ML, Amazon Connect, chatbots

Head of IT Infrastructure

Grupo La República

Peru

27K visits/sec, AWS Case Study

AWS Infrastructure Engineer

Grupo RPP

Peru

Media migration IBM→AWS

Infrastructure Engineer

Grupo El Comercio

Peru

High-traffic media, AWS Case Study

2023
Torrens University Australia
Master of Software Engineering in Cloud Computing (Advanced)
2019–2020
MIT Sloan School of Management
Data Analytics Diploma (On-site, Boston, MA)
2019–2020
University of Chile
Postgraduate Certificate in Data Analytics
2017–2018
BSG Institute
Certified Big Data & Machine Learning Program
2013–2017
Norbert Wiener University
Bachelor of Computer Systems Engineering
AWS Community HeroAWS Security SpecialtyGremlin Chaos EngineeringIstio by Solo.ioAzure 70-534
13+
International Talks
800+
Dev.to Followers
2
AWS User Groups
12+
Years in AWS
Cloud
AWS (12+ years)AzureGCP
IaC
TerraformCDKCloudFormationPulumi
AI/ML
BedrockSageMakerLangChainStrands AgentsRAGQLoRAMLflow
Languages
PythonTypeScriptGoJavaRust
Frameworks
Next.jsNestJSFastAPIHonoReact Flow
DevOps
DockerKubernetesGitHub ActionsCI/CDGitOps
FinOps
Cost optimizationpolicy-as-codeMCP toolsgovernance
Data
DynamoDBMongoDBPostgreSQLFirestoreNeo4jS3
Platforms
Cloudflare (WorkersPagesD1)FirebaseVercel