César Zea Career Highlights
From 2021 to 2025
Celestial Systems
(4 years)
Principal Data & AI Software Architect
Initially hired to improve commercial software development frameworks, I quickly gained prominence as the company's Principal Architect and high-risk project troubleshooter. I became the technical face of the company, entrusted to guarantee success in our most complex client engagements and strategic sales pursuits.
I was building the Data & AI Engineering Department from the ground up, transforming a strategic goal into a profitable, high-growth business unit. I architected the department's structure, defined its go-to-market strategy, and cultivated a world-class team, all while working daily with the executive committee and engineering teams to ensure alignment with corporate objectives.
Management & Leadership
- Department Creation & Scaling: Architected and built the Data & AI division from zero to a team of 25 experts supporting the production global teams. Established specialized Centers of Excellence for Dataiku, Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake, Databricks, and Gen AI.
- Operational & Financial Governance: Designed and implemented SOPs for cloud cost analysis and budget lifecycle management. Deployed an automated system for monitoring and controlling cloud expenditure, directly protecting project profitability.
- Process & Quality Standardization: Implemented company-wide standards for transparency, documentation, and continuous improvement, establishing a culture of total quality and ensuring client satisfaction.
- Talent Acquisition & Vetting: Led the technical validation process for all new hires, creating comparative criteria to build a team of elite talent aligned with project and company needs.
Consultancy & Strategic Advisory
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Strategic Consulting for Industry Leaders: Delivered high-impact architectural reviews and strategic analyses for companies like Hitachi Energy. My confidential reports to senior leadership directly influenced the securing of multi-million dollar contracts.
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Client-Facing Technical Leadership: Acted as the primary technical liaison for the company's most significant clients. I owned the technical relationship, ensuring trust and satisfaction.
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Commercial Product Evolution: Assumed full technical responsibility for new, strategically important releases of commercial software products for companies valued at over $100M.
Featured Projects & Services
Sales Enablement & Go-to-Market: Spearheaded technical support for the sales team, creating use cases, POCs, and technical documentation. Delivered keynote presentations at conferences in Vancouver, Toronto, and San Francisco, resulting in the acquisition of key new clients.
AI & GenAI Solutions Development: Led the creation of cutting-edge POCs, including a RAG system for the financial sector, an LLM-based system for automated Jira ticket generation and classification from support inboxes, a real-time, voice-based customer service system for the banking industry, a fraudulent transaction detection system on Microsoft Fabric and others.
Enterprise Software Enhancement: Directed architecture and provided technical leadership for multiple releases of commercial products like Sencha ExtJS, ER/Studio, Hitachi Lumada, Mobile and FieldWorker, and Aqua Data Studio, and others.
From 1.999 to 2021
Jaune Sistemas
(22 years)
Founder, CTO & Chief Architect
I founded, led, and scaled Jaune Sistemas for 22 years, transforming it into a successful software consultancy with over 50 developers under my management. This was the ultimate test of my dual-capability leadership. While directing the company's strategy and leading client acquisition, I never stepped away from the technology. I remained the ultimate technical authority, personally leading the full spectrum of technical work—from low-level coding and solution architecture to project management and the hands-on technical direction of my development teams.
This entrepreneurial journey was my training ground for understanding how technology must drive tangible business results. I not only delivered complex solutions for major clients but also conceived and built a proprietary CRM product, creating a significant new revenue stream for the company.
Management & Leadership
- Full Business Ownership: Directed all company functions, including P&L, business development, client relations, and personnel management for a team of over 50 professionals.
- Consultative Sales & Strategy: Received comprehensive commercial training and personally led the sales cycle, from market segmentation and prospecting to closing high-value deals.
- Product Development: Conceived, architected, and led the development of a proprietary CRM, successfully implementing it across multiple clients and creating a recurring revenue stream.
Consultancy & Strategic Advisory
- Trusted Advisor to Global Leaders: Provided strategic consulting and technical expertise for major corporations, including EY and Telefónica, solving complex challenges and guiding their technology roadmaps.
- Systems Management Outsourcing: Acted as the de-facto IT/Systems Management department for key clients like Georg Fischer, taking full responsibility for their operational technology.
- Expert-on-Demand: Served as a high-level consultant for clients requiring expert intervention in SQL Server optimization, performance tuning, and specialized team training.
Featured Projects & Achievements
- Large-Scale Public Sector Systems: Led the design and delivery of critical infrastructure projects, including the Remote Control System for Public Lighting for the Madrid City Council.
- Critical Enterprise Migrations: Directed high-stakes database migration and optimization projects for major brands like Telepizza, ensuring compliance with CMMI-III standards.
- Enterprise Solutions for Industry Giants: Delivered key software for companies like Iberdrola, including a platform for executive compensation and share management.
From 1.998 to 1.999
Poliedro Ingenieros
A company to continue the IT projects abandoned by INTECSA
Poliedro Ingenieros was created with the aim of giving continuity to the projects that I live for the Barcelona City Council and other clients after the closure of the INTECSA Internacional software development department after its sale as a civil engineering company.
In this company I was hired as director, leading and continuing with the work and projects that we carry out from there.
Management
Finding clients, project management, personnel search, performance monitoring, tracking documents, customer relations, team management, etc.
Consultancy
Analysis of needs, definition of specifications, follow-up reports, specific consulting sessions, project management, search for and proposal of solutions, etc.
On many occasions I have been required by my clients in consulting sessions as an Expert in SQL Server, either to train their teams, solve specific problems, optimizations, etc.
Featured Projects & Services
Analysis of needs, definition of specifications, follow-up reports, specific consulting sessions, project management, search for and proposal of solutions, etc.
On many occasions I have been required by my clients in consulting sessions as an Expert in SQL Server, either to train their teams, solve specific problems, optimizations, etc.
Featured Projects & Services
Analysis of needs, definition of specifications, follow-up reports, specific consulting sessions, project management, search for and proposal of solutions, etc.
On many occasions I have been required by my clients in consulting sessions as an Expert in SQL Server, either to train their teams, solve specific problems, optimizations, etc.
From 1993 to 1998
INTECSA Internacional
DRAGADOS Group
(ACS Group)
INTECSA Internacional. The biggest Civil Engineer consultancy company in Spain at 90s
Starting as developer, then analyst, later architect and later Project Manager due to my merits with my Final Degree Project with Honors with the completion of a project that brought many benefits to Intecsa, along with the merits of my works for the Barcelona City Council.
I developed and managed a multitude of development projects, both in their technical, administrative, economic and commercial aspects.
Management
Finding clients, project management, personnel search, performance monitoring, tracking documents, customer relations, team management, etc.
Consultancy
Analysis of needs, definition of specifications, follow-up reports, specific consulting sessions, project management, search for and proposal of solutions, etc.
On many occasions I have been required by my clients in consulting sessions as an Expert in SQL Server, either to train their teams, solve specific problems, optimizations, etc.
Featured Projects & Services
Analysis of needs, definition of specifications, follow-up reports, specific consulting sessions, project management, search for and proposal of solutions, etc.
On many occasions I have been required by my clients in consulting sessions as an Expert in SQL Server, either to train their teams, solve specific problems, optimizations, etc.
Featured Projects & Services
Analysis of needs, definition of specifications, follow-up reports, specific consulting sessions, project management, search for and proposal of solutions, etc.
On many occasions I have been required by my clients in consulting sessions as an Expert in SQL Server, either to train their teams, solve specific problems, optimizations, etc.
From 1992 to 1993
SOFTWARE IBERICA 92
Software Ibérica 92. A software development company for business and accounting applications.
Captured by SOFTWARE-IBÉRICA 92 to join its staff, I spent the month of January hired by INDUSTRIAS PROTECNO S.A. in an external collaboration regime to finalize the systems that had been started there.
Both Organic and Functional analysis tasks of projects of own and third-party responsibility in work both alone and in a team with the rest of the analysts of the development department and with the director of the same.