Summary
Mauricio Araya is a Technical Director based in Costa Rica with 11 years of focused experience leading cloud-native engineering teams and delivering resilient, secure systems. He currently manages and mentors a 22-person distributed team on the Step Up for Students account, driving software development best practices, observability, and stakeholder-aligned roadmaps. A hands-on former SRE and DevOps architect, he has built Terraform modules, automated CI/CD and testing pipelines, and hardened AWS environments with KMS, CloudFront, Cognito and Lambda integrations. He also runs CloudMatic as a cloud consulting practice and co-organizes the Costa Rica DevOps + Cloud Native community, signaling both entrepreneurial drive and local technical leadership. Mauricio’s background in infrastructure automation, combined with a Master’s in Information Systems and recent Data Science study, lets him bridge strategy, people development, and practical implementation across cloud and data initiatives. An often-overlooked strength is his track record in scaling team processes as much as systems—recruiting, onboarding and growing engineering capability alongside infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Data Science Specialist, Data Science Specialist at Tecnológico de Costa Rica
English, Spanish, Portuguese