Universidad Blas Pascal — Córdoba, Argentina
Taught the full course: business intelligence fundamentals, dimensional modeling, indicators and analytical exploitation of data, for students with no prior background in the subject.
Carlos José Barroso
Artificial Intelligence Specialist · Data Architect · Author and speaker
General Fernández Oro, Río Negro, Argentina [email protected] +54 9 351 757 4588
www.cjbarroso.com linkedin.com/in/cjbarroso github.com/cjbarroso ORCID 0009-0008-2126-1046 ResearchGate Carlos-Barroso-7
Professional profile
Artificial intelligence specialist with over twenty years in technology and more than thirteen dedicated specifically to AI and machine learning (since 2012). Chief AI Officer at Teracloud, where I set the vision, architecture and AI adoption strategy for the company and its clients; alongside that role I maintain an independent practice in consulting, writing and public speaking on AI and data.
My work spans both technical construction —MLOps, data architectures, generative AI systems and agents in production— and the teaching and communication of those subjects to technical and non-technical audiences. Author of the D2M2 (Datera Data Maturity Model), a data maturity assessment framework used by Teracloud and other organizations, and of two books on AI leadership published in 2025, in Spanish and English.
My recent writing focuses on the public dimension of the problem: access to compute, to data and to AI education, and the re-skilling of junior professionals in the face of automation.
Areas of specialization
- Generative AI and language models. Design and implementation of solutions on Amazon Bedrock, Anthropic and OpenAI; context engineering, agents, integration with APIs and knowledge bases.
- MLOps and machine learning systems engineering. Infrastructure, pipelines and production deployment of machine and deep learning workloads.
- Data architecture for AI. Multi-account data lakes, data warehouses and lakehouse architectures (S3, Redshift, Lake Formation, Apache Iceberg, Glue, DataZone).
- Data maturity and governance. Author of the D2M2 model; diagnostic assessment and data modernization roadmaps as a prerequisite to any AI initiative.
- AI risk, security and ethics. Shadow AI and corporate data exfiltration, responsible AI governance, assessment of organizational exposure.
- AI, work and inequality. The impact of automation on the structure of employment; re-skilling junior professionals toward orchestration and oversight of AI systems; public access to compute and knowledge.
Teaching and training experience
"From Idea to GenAI" programme — AWS Latin America
A series of in-person workshops delivered at the Amazon Web Services offices in Santiago de Chile, Mexico City and Buenos Aires, and at Teracloud's offices in Córdoba. Contents: generative AI fundamentals, criteria for selecting use cases, live demonstrations on Amazon Bedrock and the construction of an adoption roadmap. Mixed audiences of technical and business profiles.
Seminar "Mature your data and launch generative AI projects"
Training module on data maturity assessment and the comparison of architectures (data lake, data warehouse, lakehouse), with hands-on generative AI demonstrations.
Webinar on data modernization and data maturity
Open lecture in Spanish, available on YouTube.
Technical training of teams
Mentoring of data teams, architecture and code reviews, and internal training workshops as part of my technical advisory practice.
Technical community
The southernmost AWS user group in the world: organization of regular training meetups and development of a regional technical community.
Professional experience
Teracloud.io — Argentina
Responsible for the AI vision, architecture and strategy of the company and its client portfolio. Definition of the generative AI and data service portfolio; technical leadership of AI adoption initiatives; public representation of the company at AWS forums in Argentina, Chile, Mexico and the United States. Author of the D2M2 data maturity framework. Strategic goal: position Teracloud as AWS's leading AI and data partner in Latin America.
Independent practice in AI and data — Argentina
AI strategy and roadmaps, responsible AI governance, cloud data architecture, development of generative AI agents, structuring of innovation labs and product incubation. Advisory work for startups, companies undergoing modernization, consulting firms and educational institutions exploring AI adoption in learning contexts.
Teracloud — Argentina
Design, architecture and implementation of MLOps infrastructure for machine learning, deep learning and artificial intelligence workloads. Reduced costs and time to production for clients' ML initiatives through secure, reproducible infrastructure pipelines.
Machinalis — Argentina
Led the machine learning solutions architecture practice at one of the country's pioneering machine learning consultancies. Identification of market verticals and design of the technical approach; management of the customer decision journey from first contact to proposal; leadership of the business analysis teams in the design of ML solutions.
Machinalis — Argentina
Management of the company's full project portfolio, in a context of data science and machine learning projects for clients across the region. The period in which my specific work in artificial intelligence began.
Machinalis — Argentina
Agile project management of a medium-sized aerospace MRP system.
Starbene — Argentina
Definition and maintenance of development processes compliant with international medical device regulation: ISO 9001, IEC 60601 (medical electrical equipment), ISO 13485 (medical devices — quality management), IEC 62304 (medical device software — life cycle processes), ISO/IEC 14598 (software product evaluation) and the FDA General Principles of Software Validation.
IURL — Argentina
Led the project that became versions 6 and 7 of the urli OS operating system.
AguarA Soft — Argentina
Design and development of business management applications.
Xecomm — Argentina
Design and implementation of software for government bodies.
Publications
Books
Barroso, C. (2025). The AI Leadership Trap: Firing your Chief AI Officer is just the first step. 1st ed. General Fernández Oro, Río Negro, Argentina. ASIN B0FQT5LLY5. Kindle edition. amazon.com/dp/B0FQT5LLY5
Barroso, C. (2025). La trampa del liderazgo en IA: Despedir a su CAIO es solo el primer paso [The AI leadership trap: firing your CAIO is only the first step]. 1st ed. General Fernández Oro, Argentina. ISBN 978-631-01-0938-1. Kindle edition. amazon.com/dp/B0FNYX3C3D
Articles and preprints
Barroso, C. (2025). From Grunt Work to Governance: Re-skilling Juniors as AI Orchestrators. Preprint, ResearchGate. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.14680.97281
Barroso, C. (2025). Unlocking Creativity: A Guide to Human-AI Collaboration in Design. Whitepaper.
Essays and public writing
Barroso, C. (2025). The AI's Pandora's Box: A Technical Report on the New Wave of Corporate Data Exfiltration. Technical report on Shadow AI and corporate data leakage.
Barroso, C. (2025). Civilización o barbarie digital: lo que Sarmiento nos diría sobre la IA y la desigualdad [Civilization or digital barbarism: what Sarmiento would tell us about AI and inequality]. Essay on AI, inequality and public access to knowledge.
Barroso, C. (2025). AWSomeness 2024: My re:Invent 2024 highlights. Analysis of the state of the art in cloud data and AI.
Barroso, C. (2017). Machine learning en e-commerce: casos de éxito [Machine learning in e-commerce: success stories]. Conference material on applied machine learning cases in the Latin American market.
Barroso, C. (2012). Python para grandes proyectos [Python for large projects]. Conference material on the applicability of Python and free software in large-scale engineering projects.
Conferences and presentations
| Year | Activity | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | AWS GenAI & Data Fast Track — session with leading Latin American fintech startups | AWS offices, San Francisco, USA |
| 2025 | "Mature your data and launch generative AI projects" — lead speaker | AWS offices, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| 2024 | Tera-Workshop: "Supercharge your startup with GenAI" | Teracloud, Córdoba, Argentina |
| 2024 | "From Idea to GenAI" (FITGA) | AWS offices, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| 2024 | AWS Community Day Argentina — speaker and member of the organizing team | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| 2024 | "From Idea to GenAI" (FITGA) | AWS offices, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| 2024 | "From Idea to GenAI" (FITGA) | AWS offices, Mexico City, Mexico |
| 2024 | América Digital 2024 | Mexico City, Mexico |
| 2024 | "From Idea to GenAI" (FITGA) | AWS offices, Santiago de Chile, Chile |
| 2024 | Cloud eXPerience | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Education
Licenciatura in Computer Science
Postgraduate Specialization in Management
Business Administration for IT Companies
Certifications and continuing education
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate — Amazon Web Services (2020–2023)
- AWS Certified Database Specialty — Amazon Web Services (2022)
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — Amazon Web Services (2019–2021)
- AWS Academy Graduate — Machine Learning Foundations — Amazon Web Services (2022)
- AWS Well-Architected Proficient — Amazon Web Services (2021)
- AWS Solutions Training for Partners: Machine Learning on AWS – Business — Amazon Partner Network (2019)
- AWS Technical Professional and AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials — Amazon Partner Network (2018)
- Project management training (PMP) — Project Management Institute (2012)
- Scrum Manager (2010)
Awards and recognition
AWS User Group Leader
In recognition of founding and leading the AWS User Group Patagonia, the southernmost AWS user group in the world.
AWS Community Builder
AWS recognition programme for technical specialists with sustained community contribution through content, training and public speaking.
Technical skills
AI and machine learning: generative AI, large language models, AI agents, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, Anthropic, OpenAI, MLOps, machine learning, deep learning.
Data: data lake / data warehouse / lakehouse architectures, Amazon S3, Redshift, AWS Lake Formation, AWS Glue, Amazon DataZone, Apache Iceberg, SQL, data governance and maturity.
Cloud and infrastructure: AWS (multi-account architecture, Well-Architected Framework), Google Cloud, on-premise platforms, GNU/Linux.
Languages and development: Python, SQL, C.
Management and method: project and portfolio management, agile methodologies (Scrum), requirements analysis, innovation management, robotic process automation (RPA), software processes under ISO/IEC/FDA standards.
Languages
Spanish — native.
English — full professional proficiency. Professional and teaching activity in English, including presentations and client work in the United States, Mexico and Chile.
Other interests
Music: singing, classical guitar and bass. Trekking in the Andes and kettlebell training.