Summary
Jorge Cortes is a Principal Cloud Architect with two decades of telecommunications and network engineering experience and a recent focus on cloud-native networking, security, and Kubernetes. He has shaped cloud networking strategies across major vendors—Oracle, Microsoft, Aviatrix, Azure, AWS and GCP—helping retail and large enterprise customers translate business needs into secure, scalable cloud architectures. Known for working closely with product and sales teams, he blends hands-on technical depth (BGP, MPLS, QoS, hybrid networking) with roadmap and go-to-market influence that helps win strategic accounts. His career path from resident engineer and Cisco/Nortel network design roles to senior Azure and cloud architecture positions gives him rare end-to-end visibility into on-prem to multi-cloud migration challenges. Jorge holds multiple cloud certifications and leverages that credibility to act as a trusted advisor to C-level and engineering stakeholders. Based in Austin, he pairs practical field experience with product-facing contributions that accelerate cloud adoption in retail and consumer goods.
6 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS Telecommunications Engineering, BS Telecommunications Engineering at Tecnológico de Monterrey
English, Portuguese, Spanish