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Campinas, Brazil · available for selected work

Guilherme Almeida Zeni I build production systems and research the optimization problems behind them.

Ten years of production engineering, two research programmes at Unicamp, and a standing interest in the problems that sit between software and mathematics: routing, scheduling, search, and the machinery of decision-making.

Current focus

What I am working on now

updated July 2026

Applied & computational mathematics

Second master’s at IMECC (Unicamp), with research on an integrated production-routing problem: radiopharmaceutical scheduling under radioactive decay and appointment time windows. The interesting part is that no published work applies an exact method to it.

AI-first system architecture

Zenus OS (an operating environment designed around intent rather than applications), plus Energeia, an architecture experiment grounded in vector-symbolic algebra and Aristotelian act/potency structure.

Metaheuristics for routing

Holographic Route Actualization, a metaheuristic for CVRP and TSP built on top of a production Java optimizer, currently in benchmarking against the standard instance libraries.

Selected work

Some of what I have built.

  • Since 2025 Systems · Open source

    Zenus OS

    An AI-first operating environment: an intent execution engine that turns natural-language goals into verified actions across local tools. Architecture, runtime and tooling.

    • TypeScript
    • Node
    • MCP
    • Astro
  • Since 2025 Research · AI architecture

    Energeia

    A cognitive architecture built on vector-symbolic algebra, using Aristotle’s act/potency distinction as the organising principle for state transition rather than as decoration.

    • Python
    • VSA
    • NumPy
  • Since 2025 Research · Metaheuristics

    Holographic Route Actualization

    A metaheuristic for capacitated vehicle routing and TSP, implemented inside the PostVRP optimizer codebase and benchmarked against standard instance libraries.

    • Java
    • CVRP
    • TSP
  • 2015–2020 Research · Benchmarking

    PostVRP & VRPBench

    A benchmark generator for rich vehicle routing problems derived from real postal deliveries, and the multi-objective optimizer built around it. Published as a chapter in Smart Delivery Systems (Elsevier, 2019).

    • Java
    • VRP
    • Benchmarking
  • Since 2025 Research · Modelling

    Multidimensional Ideological Model

    A model of political ideology across multiple independent axes rather than a single left-right line, with an interactive instrument for exploring the resulting space.

    • Astro
    • TypeScript
    • D3
  • Since 2025 Research · Simulation

    Interplanetary VRP

    Vehicle routing extended to orbital mechanics, where the cost between two nodes changes with time because the nodes are moving. Interactive simulation of the resulting problem.

    • Astro
    • TypeScript
    • Simulation
  • Since 2025 Product · Tooling

    Storyline

    A visual workspace for writers: characters, relationships, timeline and scenes on a single canvas, built because every existing tool splits them across separate views.

    • React
    • Vite
    • React Flow

Also shipped

Smaller things, public and playable.

Experience

Where I have worked and studied.

  1. Since 2025

    Master’s in Applied & Computational Mathematics

    IMECC · Unicamp

    Professional master’s programme. Research in operations research, on integrated production-routing under time windows and product decay.

  2. Since 2015

    Senior Software Engineer

    Multinational technology company · Campinas

    Production systems across backend, web and platform work, in distributed teams spanning the Americas and Eastern Europe. Increasing responsibility for architecture, review and technical direction.

  3. 2020

    Master’s in Technology (opens in a new tab)

    FT · Unicamp

    Dissertation: “Modeling a benchmark for the vehicle routing problem based on real post office deliveries in Artur Nogueira.” Advisor: Prof. Dr. Luis Augusto Angelotti Meira.

  4. 2019

    Book chapter: Smart Delivery Systems (opens in a new tab)

    Elsevier

    Chapter 8: “How to assess your Smart Delivery System? Benchmarks for rich vehicle routing problems.”

  5. 2015–2020

    Member, GPMaC research group

    Concrete Mathematics Research Group · Unicamp

    Scientific initiation through master’s. Honourable mention at the XXIII Unicamp Scientific Initiation Congress for work on the travelling salesman problem applied to postal routing.

  6. 2013–2016

    B.Tech, Systems Analysis and Development

    Unicamp

    Final project: “Vehicle routing problem benchmark based on a real post office case.” Admitted through the Comvest entrance exam.

  7. 2010–2012

    Technical course in Electronics (opens in a new tab)

    ETEC Bento Quirino · Campinas

    Evening programme, concluded with a final project. Where the programming started: C on microcontrollers and ladder logic on PLCs, alongside analogue and digital electronics.

Toolkit

Tools I have shipped with, not tools I have read about.

Languages
  • TypeScript
  • Java
  • Python
  • C++
  • SQL
  • PHP
Systems & platform
  • Node
  • REST & APIs
  • PostgreSQL
  • Cloud Run / Vercel
DevOps & cloud
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Helm
  • Argo CD
  • Terraform
  • CI/CD
  • Grafana
Web
  • React
  • Astro
  • Tailwind
  • Vite
  • Accessibility
  • Performance
Optimization
  • MILP
  • OR-Tools
  • CP-SAT
  • Metaheuristics
  • ALNS
  • Benchmarking
AI
  • LLM integration
  • Agents
  • MCP
  • Evaluation
  • Vector-symbolic algebra

Contact

Open to interesting problems.

Consulting, research collaboration, or a conversation about a problem you are stuck on. Portuguese or English.

Based in
Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
Elsewhere
LinkedIn (opens in a new tab)