Horacio Javier Rubio, technology and operations leader, Chile

Steady operations. Real AI adoption.

Technology and operations leader, often acting as consulting principal and trusted advisor to executive teams. 20+ years in telecom and technology, focused on critical platforms that run with confidence and on making AI part of how teams work.

How I enable AI adoption

Adoption sticks when leaders go first: prototype alongside the team, prove the value on real work and leave the capability with the people who use it.

  1. Start from a concept

    A real friction in the operation and a clear idea of how AI could remove it.

  2. Build an executive prototype

    Working and hands-on, built fast, so leaders see the value rather than imagine it.

  3. Engage the team

    The people who will use it shape it, test it on real work and become its champions.

  4. Make it how the team works

    Handed to engineering, adopted across the operation and improved continuously.

AI adoption takes hold when leaders use the tools first and make it safe for their teams to try.

My advice is grounded in daily practice with GenAI, agentic workflows, knowledge graphs and automation on top of observability data.

What steady IT operations need

The foundations I put in place with leadership teams, then hand over to the people who run them.

Service levels
KPIs the team can act on, governed through continuous improvement rather than heroics.
Recurring incidents
Structured root cause, retrospectives and a corrective action plan for every pattern.
Restoring service
Clear triage and escalation playbooks, so the right people act first.
Cost
Efficiency from team design, service terms that match real needs, and automation.
Customers
Trusted-advisor relationships with executive stakeholders, built on transparency.
People
Hiring well, developing future leaders and addressing performance directly.

Challenges I help teams solve

Project details stay confidential. The reasoning travels.

Rule out before you conclude.

Critical incidents

When a critical system fails and nobody can explain why

Under pressure, guessing feels faster than it is. Rebuild the sequence of events, rule out what changed, then compare healthy components with failing ones. The cause is usually small and specific, and evidence finds it sooner than debate. I guide teams through that discipline until it becomes their own.

  • Event reconstruction
  • Log comparison
  • Hypothesis elimination

Measure before you tune.

Performance and resilience

When a platform slows down or breaks under load

More hardware and trial-and-error settings can hide the real cause. Let the runtime show where time and memory go, through thread dumps, heap dumps and profiling, address that bottleneck, then design for the next spike, not only the last one.

  • JVM analysis
  • Profiling
  • Resilience design

Trust evidence over documentation.

Legacy systems

When critical knowledge is locked inside a legacy system

Long-lived platforms drift away from their documents. Derive the real map from how the system actually behaves, with AI agents doing the exhaustive reading and experienced people checking their conclusions.

  • Data-model analysis
  • Agentic AI
  • Knowledge graphs

Remove the wait, not the people.

Distributed teams

When distance, language and time zones slow a team down

Most delay across regions comes from incomplete information and waiting for the other side to wake up. Find the step where work stalls and give every team a complete, standardized first answer in either language.

  • GenAI
  • Workflow design
  • Bilingual service

A diagnosis method any team can reuse

  1. Size the impact

    What is affected, for whom, and how much.

  2. Map the terrain

    Possible sources and every interface involved.

  3. Read the monitoring

    Trends in related indicators, traces and logs.

  4. Find what changed

    The change history that could explain the behavior.

  5. Look for precedent

    Similar incidents that were documented before.

  6. Reason, then conclude

    Look from several angles and rule hypotheses out first.

Still practiced daily with SQL, Java, Python, Power BI, Power Automate and agentic analysis.

Twenty years of experience

  1. 2005–2013

    Builder and entrepreneur

    Partner at Toolxar, a consulting and software factory for clients in LATAM and Europe. IT & Development Manager at Productos Financieros. Partner at Intelliapps.

  2. 2013–2017

    Production specialist

    L3 engineer, then Tier 2.5/3 team lead at Amdocs on CRM, order management and billing, learning how critical platforms really behave.

  3. 2017–today

    Leading operations, enabling AI

    From support manager to Operations Partner at Amdocs, often acting as consulting principal and technical trusted advisor to customer executives. Based in Chile since 2020.

Building software, running it in production and leading the operation: that full range is what I bring to every challenge.

Credentials

Education

  • Diplomatura CAIO, UTN Buenos Aires, Argentina (in progress, Nov 2026)
  • Executive MBA, Universidad San Sebastián (in progress, 2027)
  • B.Eng. in IT Management, Universidad San Sebastián (2025)

Certifications

  • ITIL Foundation
  • Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900)
  • Certified ScrumMaster, Scrum Alliance

Languages

  • Spanish, native
  • English, fluent

Let’s talk operations and AI adoption.

I’m always glad to exchange ideas with leaders working on critical platforms, operational excellence and AI adoption. Based in Chile.