# Carlos Cortez Bazan — AWS Community Hero • CTO • Cloud Architect & AI/FinOps Builder

**Lima, Perú | +51 956 722 705 | carlos@cortez.cloud**
**LinkedIn:** linkedin.com/in/carloscortezcloud | **Web:** cortez.cloud | **GitHub:** github.com/ccortezb

AWS Community Hero with 12+ years in cloud architecture, AI/ML, and FinOps. Founder of FinOptix (open source FinOps engine) and co-founder of BrickstoreAI (BYaML protocol). Currently CTO at BWIT Perú leading cloud strategy for enterprise clients. Speaker at 13+ international events. Builder of production SaaS platforms, open source tools, and fine-tuned AI models.

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## Education

- **Torrens University Australia** — Master of Software Engineering in Cloud Computing (Advanced), 2023
- **MIT Sloan School of Management** — Data Analytics Diploma, 2019–2020 (On-site, Boston, MA)
- **University of Chile** — Postgraduate Certificate in Data Analytics, 2019–2020
- **BSG Institute** — Certified Big Data & Machine Learning Program, 2017–2018
- **Norbert Wiener University** — Bachelor of Computer Systems Engineering, 2013–2017

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## Certifications & Awards

- **AWS Community Hero** (Awarded by AWS, 2021 – Present)
- AWS Security Specialty (Active)
- Gremlin Certified Chaos Engineering Practitioner (2021)
- Certified Foundation for Istio by Solo.io (2021)
- 70-534 Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions (Microsoft, 2017)

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## Open Source & Products

### FinOptix — Founder & Builder (2026 – Present)
*Open source FinOps intelligence platform. Domains: sofe.dev, finoptix.dev, platform.sofe.dev*

- **SOFE** (Stairway Open FinOps Engine) — policy-as-code engine for cloud cost governance
  - 17 AWS collectors, 20 policies, Python (PyPI: `pip install sofe`)
  - SaaS platform: Firebase Auth, Cloudflare Workers, AWS Lambda backend
  - 9-page dashboard: topology graph, scheduled evals, alerts (Slack/email), billing
  - Docker image (ghcr.io, multi-arch), Go CLI (goreleaser), GitHub Action (@v1)
  - 28/40 SoWs complete, 16 sprints shipped in 12 days
- **FinOptix-14B** — fine-tuned 14B parameter SLM for FinOps/Cloud Governance
  - Qwen 2.5 14B base, QLoRA on Modal (A100-80GB), GGUF published
  - Open weights on HuggingFace (Apache 2.0), custom Gradio UI
  - 6/6 hackathon badges earned (HuggingFace Build Small)

### BrickstoreAI — Co-founder & Principal Architect (2024 – Present)
*AI-augmented architecture governance platform. Domain: brickstore.ai, byaml.org*

- **BYaML** (Build Your Architecture Markup Language) — open protocol for cloud architecture metadata
  - Schema v0.3 live at schema.byaml.org (58 component types, 25 relationship types)
  - byaml-finops-mcp: MCP server on PyPI (9 tools, real-time AWS FinOps analysis)
  - byaml-vscode: VS Code extension on Marketplace (syntax, snippets, validation)
  - Platform: NestJS API + Gatsby frontend + MongoDB + 53 SoWs delivered
- Full-stack SaaS: AWS Lambda (NestJS), Cloudflare Pages, Google OAuth, JWT auth

### Cloud Swords — Minecraft Mod (2026)
- AWS-themed combat mod for Minecraft 1.20.1 (Fabric), published on Modrinth
- 7 swords representing AWS services with unique abilities
- Demonstrates cloud concepts through gaming for developer education

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## Professional Experience

### CTO & Principal Solutions Architect — BWIT Perú (Oct 2025 – Present)

Leading technology strategy for a cloud services company focused on AWS enterprise clients:

- **Cloud Architecture & Security:** Landing zones, workload modernization, enterprise networking, secure architectures for government, banking, and education clients
- **AI & Generative AI Strategy:** RAG, agents (Strands SDK, LangChain), automation solutions aligned with business outcomes
- **Technical Delivery:** Quality assurance across migrations, modernization, data platforms. Frameworks, standards, and governance
- **Pre-Sales & Go-to-Market:** High-impact proposals, customer discovery sessions, technical assessments. Aligned with AWS and Ingram Micro
- **Strategic Partnerships:** AWS Advanced Partner path, IBM Instana partnership, Service Delivery badges progression
- **Revenue Impact:** Managing ~$1M ARR across 4 enterprise accounts

### Tech Head AWS Studio — Orion LATAM Perú (May 2025)

- Led end-to-end AWS Studio: design, development, and managing pre-sales engineers
- Built AI Platform for tariff services (TypeScript, Next.js, NestJS, Docker, MongoDB)
- Managed AWS team for 3 countries (Chile, Peru, Colombia) — $17M forecast
- Designed GenAI business cases using Strands Agents SDK, LangChain, CrewAI, AgentCore
- Speaker at international events (Seattle, Peru, Chile, Brazil)

### Principal Solutions Architect — BrickstoreAI Sydney (Feb 2024 – Present)

- Created BYaML declarative language and protocol for Augmented DevOps with AI
- Launched generative AI platform using LangChain, Bedrock, SageMaker, and LLMOps
- Built AI solutions with RAG architecture, SLMs, vector DBs, and prompt engineering
- Led technical roadmap and product vision for developer AI automation

### Solutions Architect Lead — CyberCX Sydney (Sep 2022 – Oct 2024)

- Designed secure AWS Landing Zones for public sector clients (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Led cloud modernization and migration to AWS/Azure (Serverless & Containers)
- Contributed to AWS competency achievements through process improvement
- AI/NLP integrations for healthcare cybersecurity and risk mitigation
- AWS Connect automation for call center systems (CDK, Terraform, Twilio)

### Hyperscale Solutions Architect (AWS) — AC3 Sydney (Mar 2022 – Aug 2022)

- Delivered complex cloud infrastructure using AWS, CDK, and CI/CD pipelines
- Infrastructure automation, cost optimization, and scalable customer environments

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## Previous Roles (2015–2022)

| Role | Company | Location | Period | Key |
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| Tech Lead Senior Cloud Architect | Globant | Peru | Nov 2021 – Apr 2022 | FinTech mobile apps, Terraform, Lambda, Fargate, DevSecOps |
| Lead Solution Architect | CENNTI Cloud | Peru & Chile | Jan 2020 – Oct 2021 | AI/ML for mining/healthcare, AWS Advanced Partner, multi-account |
| Senior Cloud Architect | BGH Tech Partner | Chile | Dec 2019 – Nov 2020 | COVID-19 data analytics, ETL (Glue, BigQuery), MLOps (SageMaker) |
| Lead Migration Architect | Nubox | Chile | Dec 2018 – Dec 2019 | Full on-prem→AWS migration (18 years data), Terraform, multi-country |
| AI & Cloud Architect | In Motion Group | Chile & Peru | Feb 2017 – Nov 2018 | ML solutions, Amazon Connect, chatbots, predictive analytics |
| Head of IT Infrastructure | Grupo La República | Peru | Nov 2015 – Feb 2017 | 27K concurrent visits/sec, AWS Case Study published |
| AWS Infrastructure Engineer | Grupo RPP | Peru | Jul 2015 – Nov 2015 | Media migration IBM→AWS, Auto Scaling, CodeDeploy |
| Infrastructure Engineer | Grupo El Comercio | Peru | Sep 2014 – Jul 2015 | High-traffic media, AWS Case Study for election coverage |

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## Community & Speaking

- **AWS Community Hero** (2021 – Present) — recognized for cloud community impact
- **AWS User Group Peru** — Founder & leader (now Nefi leads operations, Carlos contributes as Hero)
- **AWS User Group ML LATAM** — Co-leader with Max Zevallos (biweekly sessions on AI/ML)
- **13+ international talks** — AWS Community Days (Lima, Santiago), Data Architect Fest, meetups
- **Dev.to** — 800+ followers, 10+ technical blog posts (LLMOps, FinOps, Agents, MCP)
- **HuggingFace** — Published model (FinOptix-14B) + blog + Gradio Space

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## Technical Skills

**Cloud:** AWS (12+ years), Azure, GCP | **IaC:** Terraform, CDK, CloudFormation, Pulumi
**AI/ML:** Bedrock, SageMaker, LangChain, Strands Agents, RAG, Fine-tuning (QLoRA), MLflow
**Languages:** Python, TypeScript, Go, Java, Rust | **Frameworks:** Next.js, NestJS, FastAPI, Hono
**DevOps:** Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, GitOps
**FinOps:** Cost optimization, policy-as-code, MCP tools, governance automation
**Data:** DynamoDB, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Firestore, Neo4j, S3
**Platforms:** Cloudflare (Workers, Pages, D1), Firebase, Vercel