Founder & Lead Consultant

Cesar A.
Nogueira

Platform Engineer · DevOps & FinOps

10+ years building and scaling cloud infrastructure across three continents — from automotive 3D configurators at ZeroLight to enterprise FinOps platforms for H&M, SAP, Revelo, and Epic Games.

🇵🇹 Vila Real, Portugal 🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brasil 🌍 Remote Worldwide
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Cesar A. Nogueira

10+

yrs exp

−42%

avg cloud cost

15+

Successful Projects

−42%

Cloud Cost Reduction

10×

Faster AI Ops

4

Cloud Certifications

Our Story

The UP2CLOUD Story

Born from years in the trenches of enterprise cloud — UP2CLOUD exists to give every company access to senior-level cloud expertise without the enterprise price tag.

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Founded 2016

Vila Real, Portugal

UP2CLOUD was founded by Cesar A. Nogueira after years building cloud infrastructure for companies like CI&T, everis (NTT Data), Accenture, and ZeroLight. The core idea was simple: enterprise-grade cloud expertise, delivered as a lean, agile consultancy — without the bureaucracy.

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AI-First since 2022

Embracing LLMs before the hype

When AI tools became production-ready, UP2CLOUD pivoted to an AI-first delivery model — embedding AI agents into incident response, cost governance, and pipeline automation. Clients saw 10× faster resolution times and 30–50% cloud cost reductions within the first quarter.

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Going Global

3 continents, remote-first

With offices in Portugal and Brazil and Madrid on the horizon, UP2CLOUD now serves clients across Europe, LATAM, and North America. The APAC Offshore Team service was launched in 2024 to give European companies access to senior engineers at a fraction of the local cost.

Career Timeline

Platform Engineer · DevOps & FinOps

Current

UP2CLOUD

Feb 2022 – Present · Portugal & Global

International consulting delivering FinOps automation and cloud infrastructure for global clients including H&M, SAP, Revelo, and Epic Games. Clients include Repsol, AgileTV, and Universidad Europea.

DevOps Engineer

ZeroLight LLC

Aug 2021 – Feb 2022 · UK (Remote)

Built AWS & GCP infrastructure for real-time 3D automotive configurators serving millions of users globally. Optimised Kubernetes clusters for sub-100ms render latency.

Technology Architecture Manager

Accenture Interactive Brazil

Aug 2020 – Aug 2021 · São Paulo, Brasil

Led Kubernetes administration, Jenkins/Spinnaker automation, and cloud enablement teams across large-scale digital transformation programmes.

Cloud Architect

everis Brazil (NTT Data)

Feb 2019 – Aug 2020 · São Paulo, Brasil

Designed multi-cloud solutions across GCP, AWS, Azure, and Oracle Cloud. Implemented comprehensive monitoring, security frameworks, and IaC automation.

Software Engineer

CI&T

Dec 2017 – Feb 2019 · São Paulo, Brasil

Full-stack development with Java, Node.js, and React on Google Cloud — built a Big Data Analytics platform for a major mass media corporation.

Credentials

Certifications & Skills

Google Cloud

GCP Professional Architect

Google Cloud · ×2

Google Cloud

GCP Associate Engineer

Google Cloud

AWS Cloud Practitioner

Amazon Web Services

Azure AZ-900

Microsoft Azure

GCP AWS Azure Oracle Cloud Terraform Kubernetes Docker Jenkins GitHub Actions Python BigQuery FinOps OpenClaw Datadog Splunk

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Location

🇵🇹 Vila Real · 🇧🇷 São Paulo · Remote

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