Miguel Barajas

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ABOUT MIGUEL BARAJAS

Miguel is a Senior Architect specializing in AI Infrastructure, Data Center and Cloud, with 20+ years of experience in the IT industry and more than a decade designing large-scale platforms that power mission-critical workloads. His focus is enabling organizations to adopt and scale Artificial Intelligence through robust, secure, high-performance architectures.With hands-on experience across Latin America and the United States, Miguel has helped enterprises in Banking, Service Providers, Retail, and other industries move from traditional infrastructure into modern GPU-accelerated clusters, multicloud AI environments, and hybrid data pipelines.He works comfortably at the CXO level, translating business priorities into technical roadmaps that accelerate AI adoption and turn strategy into measurable outcomes.Miguel is an international speaker and multi-time Cisco Live Distinguished Speaker, known for making complex AI and cloud concepts accessible to both technical and executive audiences.Today, he serves as the Lead Architect for Cisco’s Datacenter, Cloud, and AI Infrastructure business in Latin America, overseeing the end-to-end strategy for next-generation architectures that support AI training, inference, observability, storage, and high-speed fabrics.He thrives in distributed, fast-moving environments, bringing clarity, structure, and technical depth to teams and customers adopting AI at scale.Core expertise includes:AI Infrastructure design (GPU clusters, high-density compute, fabric tuning, HPC/AI workload patterns)Enterprise AI adoption strategyMulticloud and hybrid AI architecturesData Center and cloud-native platformsContainers and orchestration (Kubernetes)High-performance storage and networking for AIDevOps, MLOps and automation frameworksObservability (Grafana, Prometheus, Fluentd)Infrastructure as Code (Ansible, Terraform, CloudForms)Linux/Unix scalable architecturesSoftware Defined Networking, Datacenter, Storage and WAN