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Practical engineering, data and AI.

Focused on real business outcomes.

Working from strategy to execution to lower costs, boost reliability, and simplify complex operations through the Czanix ecosystem.

Focus areas

Specialties that connect in practice.

I work across infrastructure, data and technical leadership. The mix depends on the problem, the team and the stage of the company.

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Practical automation and agents in the real world.

AI agents and automation pipelines integrated with your company’s systems and data. Practical intelligence applied to daily operations, with secure architecture and measurable productivity.

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Career track record

Real results from my trajectory. What changed in operations.

Real initiatives and high-complexity systems engineered or led throughout my technical and executive career.

Select company and client names are omitted for confidentiality. The numbers and outcomes below represent real initiatives I directly led or architected throughout my career.

View Cesar Zanis’s 15+ year trajectory
Food service & retail

−50%in cloud costs

Half the cloud bill.

Architecture review across Azure and GCP, costs split by application and right-sized databases.

Cloud cost (baseline = 100)

Before
100
After
50
Engineering decisions+
Cost per application:No visibility Split by application

Context and constraints

National multi-unit food service and retail group with workloads spread across Azure and GCP. The bill did not show what each application cost, which made it impossible to decide where to cut.

Alternatives and decision

Architecture review on both clouds, cost categorization by application and database right-sizing. Financial governance became part of the team’s engineering standard.

Baseline and measurement

50% reduction in cloud costs compared with the period before the project. Absolute values withheld for confidentiality.

Transferable lesson

Cloud costs only fall sustainably when every application has an owner and cost becomes part of the engineering routine.

Ceramics manufacturer

99.99%system availability

A more reliable operation.

Unified observability, elimination of single points of failure and automated recovery across plant billing.

System availability

Before
95%
After
99.99%
Engineering decisions+
Production failures:Frequent 70% reduction

Context and constraints

Recurring outages in billing and dispatch services stalled factory floor logistics during peak hours. Incident triage relied on scattered manual server logs.

Alternatives and decision

Deployed unified telemetry (metrics, logs, traces), circuit breakers around ERP integrations, database read replicas, and automated health-check recovery.

Baseline and measurement

95% historical availability over the prior 6 months. Stabilized at 99.99% uptime with a 70% drop in production incidents.

Transferable lesson

Reliability improves when alerts track real operational bottlenecks before dispatch queues come to a halt.

SaaS software company

2 daysdelivery lead time, down from 21 days

Delivery reduced from 21 to 2 days.

Automated CI/CD pipelines, pull-request test gates and reproducible deployments with instant rollback.

Delivery lead time

Before
21 days
After
2 days
Engineering decisions+
Test coverage:30% 85%

Context and constraints

Manual release windows every three weeks caused merge bottlenecks, production regressions, and hesitation to ship critical improvements.

Alternatives and decision

Standardized CI/CD pipelines with automated quality gates, Terraform infrastructure as code, ephemeral preview environments, and canary releases.

Baseline and measurement

21-day average lead time from commit to production with 30% test coverage on core flows. Cut to 2 days with 85% automated coverage.

Transferable lesson

Shrinking batch size is the safest way to accelerate product delivery while reducing engineering stress.

Healthcare cooperative

R$ 140ksaved every month

Analytics updated in real time.

Consolidated fragmented pipelines into a Lakehouse architecture, replacing weekly batches with streaming ingestion.

Data infrastructure cost

Before
R$ 320k/month
After
R$ 180k/month
Engineering decisions+
Analytics refresh:Weekly Real time

Context and constraints

Clinical and financial reporting took up to seven days to consolidate due to heavy overnight batch jobs and duplicated analytical storage.

Alternatives and decision

Re-architected into Bronze, Silver, and Gold Lakehouse layers with incremental CDC ingestion, smart partitioning, and decommissioning of redundant clusters.

Baseline and measurement

Monthly spend of R$ 320k/month on legacy data infrastructure, reduced to R$ 180k/month with real-time executive dashboards.

Transferable lesson

Clean data governance lowers storage spend while giving leadership live operational visibility.

Recent articles

Lessons straight from the field.

Project decisions, operational problems and what I learned while solving them.

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Recent publications57 published articles

Beyond the Numbers · Open Notebook

Good decisions have numbers, deadlines, and owners.

I publish essays backed by primary sources, open-formula decision simulators, and episodes of the Além dos Números podcast on software engineering, leadership, and economics. Whenever you want to exchange ideas on a real architecture or technology leadership challenge, the door is open.

Primary sources (World Bank, ILO, DORA, Oxford)Open-formula decision toolsAlém dos Números podcast on Spotify

No sales funnel or canned pitches: real problem analysis comes first.