About

Mauricio Martinez is a dynamic business professional with over fourteen years of experience in the technology industry. As a Principal Engineer Manager at Microsoft, he is focused on achieving results and making a positive impact on the business. With a customer-centric approach, Mauricio has experience working across multiple countries and lines of business to coordinate product development activities. In the last five years, Mauricio has managed initiatives that have impacted the way thousands of customers of all sizes connect to Amazon Web Services, enabling many thousands more and supporting business expansion by 10x. He has collaborated with multidisciplinary staff in marketing, finance, operations, and business development to develop new and reshape existing processes. Mauricio is an engineering leader for a high-scale networking service delivering over a dozen features yearly. He has participated in the service development supporting AWS services including Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Direct Connect (DX), and Virtual Private Network (VPN). He has built and led the AWS Direct Connect engineering team. Mauricio has a passion for building scalable, reliable, and fault-tolerant distributed systems. He believes strongly in a principled and data-driven approach to software engineering and builds his teams with the same culture. Mauricio has worked as a Software Development Manager for Amazon, where he was responsible for engineering leadership for AWS's high-scale EC2 virtual networking features. He also built and led the AWS Direct Connect product and engineering team. Mauricio holds a degree in Ingeniero en Sistemas Computacionales from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey and has completed several other courses in UML modeling, ITIL, networks administration, and project management. He has expertise in AWS, software engineering, web development, infrastructure, DevOps, and UI. With 14.62 years of relevant experience, Mauricio is a highly skilled professional with a track record of delivering results.