Javier Praddaude

I sit between the engineering team and the customer.

For 20+ years I have worked in enterprise IT — starting in infrastructure, moving through solution design and project delivery, and now co-founding and leading the technical pre-sales function of a cloud consultancy operating across Latin America.

What I do: I run technical discovery with enterprise clients, design the solution, scope it against their real budget, and present it to the people who sign. I landed a top-tier copper mining operation as an independent consultant — no firm, no brand, no team behind me — and built a consultancy on that account, closing a 3-year engagement worth around USD 4M.

What makes my approach different: I hold a business administration degree alongside two decades of technical work, so I scope solutions to what the client actually needs rather than to a reference architecture. One example — a client could not absorb the full Microsoft Cloud

Adoption Framework landing zone. Instead of discounting, I identified which components delivered no value in their context and designed a reduced implementation matched to their requirements and budget. We won it against vendors quoting the standard framework.

Technical ground I cover: Azure and Huawei Cloud landing zones, networking and security architecture, IaaS to PaaS migration, Kubernetes, disaster recovery, DevOps adoption, Microsoft Power Platform, cloud cost optimization, post-merger IT integration.

Based in Argentina (UTC-3) with full overlap with US business hours. Native Spanish, fluent English, Portuguese.

Open to Solutions Engineer, Sales Engineer and Pre-Sales roles with international teams.