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