Cloud Optimization Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS) — Well-Architected Team

There's nothing I love more than helping organizations transform their cloud infrastructure from good to exceptional. As part of AWS's Well-Architected team, I collaborate with customers worldwide to optimize their cloud workloads for security, performance, reliability, cost efficiency, resilience, sustainability, and operational excellence.

Through Well-Architected Framework Reviews, AWS Trusted Advisor, and AWS Health, I identify critical improvements and drive actionable outcomes that make a real difference. My approach combines 15+ years of software engineering expertise with a deep passion for serverless computing, event-driven architectures, and domain-driven design.

I bridge the gap between business vision and technical reality—diving deep into customer challenges, applying hexagonal architecture principles, and delivering cloud-native solutions that scale.

🩹 Startup Co-Founder • 🎤 TEDx Speaker • 📖 Science Fiction Author (1 book, 3 short stories) • 🧩 Proudly Autistic

Opinions are my own and all code projects here are personal

• 🌐 Blog: ibrahimcesar.cloud (English & Portuguese)
• 💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ibrahimcesar
• 📧 Email: [email protected]
• 💬 AMA: Ask Me Anything

• Accelerate Well-Architected Best Practices - Helping organizations effectively implement and scale cloud excellence
• Facilitating Software Architecture - Empowering teams to make architectural decisions
• Learning Rust - Building modern CLI tools and systems programming
• Learning Haskell - Academic pursuit for MBA in Gestão Estratégica de Operações, Projetos e TI at USP | EACH

Here are some of my notable projects showcasing different aspects of cloud architecture and development:

💡 Tip: Check out my repositories for more projects on serverless, AWS CDK, and cloud-native applications!

I write about cloud architecture, serverless, AWS, and software engineering on my blog. Here are my most recent posts:

• AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• What is AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)
• 📘 #devbooks: The Software Architect Elevator, by Gregor Hohpe
• Kafka on the Serverless Shore: Building event-driven applications with Kafka
• Estou escrevendo um livro! Sobre AWS!
• Certificações AWS — Por quê e de que forma
• Top 5 technology books I read in 2021
• Explorando trade-offs da web3
• Introdução ao Next.js
• Brasil, uma Profecia e O Monstro de Mariana

I'm an avid reader with interests spanning technology, philosophy, and literature. Here's what I've been reading lately:

• Os Demônios by Fyodor Dostoevsky (⭐️ 4.47)
• All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess by Becca Rothfeld (⭐️ 3.57)
• Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet by Taylor Lorenz (⭐️ 3.58)
• The Value Flywheel Effect: Power the Future and Accelerate Your Organization to the Modern Cloud by David Anderson (⭐️ 3.72)
• Strategic Monoliths and Microservices: Driving Innovation Using Purposeful Architecture (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Vernon)) by Vaughn Vernon (⭐️ 4.4)

• The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World by Steve Brusatte (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
• No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai (⭐⭐⭐)
• Blindsight (Firefall, #1) by Peter Watts (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
• Juice: A History of Female Ejaculation by Stephanie Haerdle (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
• All Fours by Miranda July (⭐)
• Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Gilles Deleuze (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
• The Adolescent (Vintage Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
• A ilha de Sacalina (Portuguese Edition) by Anton Chekhov (unrated)
• Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter by Kate Conger (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
• A Jornada do Escritor: Estrutura mítica para escritores by Christopher Vogler (unrated)

• Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim - Transformed how I think about DevOps and high-performing teams
• Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann - Essential reading for understanding data systems and trade-offs
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - The classic that reshapes how you think about programming
• Fundamentals of Software Architecture by Mark Richards, Neal Ford - Comprehensive guide to architectural thinking
• You Don't Know JS Yet by Kyle Simpson - Deep dive into JavaScript fundamentals
• Team Topologies by Matthew Skelton, Manuel Pais - Essential guide to organizing business and technology teams for fast flow
• The Rust Programming Language by Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols - A very well written book that makes you smarter

• Serverless is Ready, Developers Are Not - Exploring the trade-offs and mindset shifts needed for serverless development
• Full Stack Cloud SSR with Next.js, Tailwind, and AWS CDK - Building and deploying SSR applications using Amplify and CDK
• AWS Amplify, SAM, CDK ... What to choose for your IaC on AWS?!? - Comparing AWS Infrastructure as Code tools

• A Otimização Prematura e a Raíz de Todo o Mal (PT) - Deep dive into Knuth's famous quote about premature optimization
• Por quê sistemas falham? (PT) - Everything fails, all the time. Learning from system failures
• Is Software Engineering Still an Oxymoron? - Reflections on Alan Kay's perspective

• O que aprendi ao co-fundar uma startup da "economia colaborativa" (PT) - Lessons from founding a gig economy startup
• "Ruined by Design", um livro mais do que necessário (PT) - On the responsibility of designers and developers in product creation
• Next Billion Users (PT) - Exploring the concept of the next billion users and Brazil's role
• Explorando trade-offs da web3 (PT) - Critical analysis of web3 technologies

• Oficina { Nexo de Código Aberto } (PT) - Workshop on Nexo's technology vision

• 📚 Favorite Book: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• 🎨 Art: Big fan of Van Gogh
• 🤔 Philosophy: Aligned with Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) by Graham Harman - not related to OOP in programming!
• 🎮 Gaming: 4,015 hours accumulated in Animal Crossing: New Horizons (as of Nov 2025)
• 🗣️ Pronunciation: /ɪ́brəhɪjm/ (ee-brah-HEEM)
• 🏳️ Pronouns: Ele/dele (He/him)