Eduardo Cerqueira

Hands-on engineering leader · Platform, AI & DevSecOps

Hands-on engineering leader who builds production software and grows teams. Co-founded Aletyx, led IBM BAMOE engineering from 20+ to 60+ engineers across 8+ countries, and led platform and quality engineering for console.redhat.com at Red Hat.

Experience

Co-Founder, Head of Engineering & COO

Aletyx · United States · Remote · 2025-03 to present

Co-founded Aletyx, a B2B decision-automation and AI platform for regulated enterprises. Runs engineering, security (Security Officer), and operations, leading a remote team of 8 engineers while staying hands-on in architecture, code, and automation.

Senior Manager, Software Engineering

IBM · United States · Remote · 2023-02 to 2025-02

Led engineering and owned product P&L for IBM BAMOE (formerly Red Hat RHPAM/RHDM) after the product moved from Red Hat to IBM. Led through 2 engineering managers; fully remote team across 8+ countries.

Software Engineering Manager

Red Hat · United States · Remote · 2021-01 to 2023-03

Led 8 squads (20+ engineers) through 2 engineering managers, owning CI/CD, release quality, and production readiness for console.redhat.com and Red Hat Insights across NA, EMEA, and LATAM.

Senior Principal Software Engineer

Red Hat · Westford, MA · 2019-12 to 2021-01

Staff/Principal-level IC for console.redhat.com SaaS backends — Kubernetes/OpenShift, Kafka, 3scale, CDN, and Red Hat Insights microservices — while mentoring ICs and shaping career frameworks.

Full career history

Featured projects

  • Aletyx platform & AI gateway (Product, 2025): Multi-cloud B2B SaaS with AI gateway, hardened containers, and a customer portal for tickets, artifacts, and release communications.
  • Lyx for VS Code (Developer tools, 2026): I created and maintain this VS Code extension for the Aletyx engineering team. It brings the whole delivery flow into the editor: PRs and review metrics against a 4-hour SLA, each change tracked from PR to production, deploys and releases across GKE, ECS, and Cloudflare, Jenkins jobs, and an AI assistant that proposes actions you confirm.
  • Apache KIE (Open Source, 2024): Open-source business automation community (KIE). Contributor and committer work alongside IBM Business Automation Manager Open Editions leadership.
  • Jenkins Live Wall (CI / DevOps, 2026): I created and maintain this official Jenkins plugin under the jenkinsci organization. It turns jobs into a wall of big coloured tiles for real-time pipeline monitoring — built for the television in the corner of the office, so teams get instant visibility from across the room.
  • Jenkins Concierge (AI / Agents, 2026): A Jenkins plugin I wrote and submitted to the Jenkins project: onboarding tours and an AI assistant that know your instance. Everything is computed from each person's own permissions, logs are stripped of secrets before they reach the model, and the assistant only proposes builds; nothing runs until you confirm.
  • Fedora Copr packages (Open Source, 2024): Maintains Fedora-related builds via Copr — including cloud-init, OpenStack tooling, and related packages — continuing a long open-source packaging practice from Red Hat years.
  • Red Hat Insights / Hybrid Cloud Console QE (Platform, 2021): Years of Principal-level engineering on Insights SaaS quality: Kafka-backed microservices, CDN, automation frameworks, and CI/CD for console.redhat.com.
  • AI Alpha Squad (AI / Agents, 2026): Autonomous multi-agent software delivery squad: open a GitHub Issue and specialized agents analyze, design, code, test, review, and open a PR — with a human Director approving key milestones.
  • getalight.me (Product, 2026): Free, ad-free screen lighting for video calls and recordings — open a spare monitor, tune brightness and Kelvin color temperature, then go fullscreen. Ships as a Cloudflare Workers web app plus a Chrome MV3 extension for preferred-monitor placement.
  • AI Sandbox (AI / Agents, 2026): Personal monorepo of small, runnable AI experiments — agents, RAG, Hugging Face, LangChain, CrewAI, and MCP — each app self-contained and easy to tear down.

Expertise

Software Engineering

Architecture and hands-on delivery across distributed systems, APIs, and full-stack product work.

  • Distributed systems & Kafka-backed services
  • Python, Java/Spring Boot, TypeScript/Node
  • REST APIs, SSO (Keycloak / Entra), multi-database designs
  • Testing strategy: unit, integration, E2E, performance
  • IDE tooling: VS Code & IntelliJ extensions, marketplace publishing

AI & Automation

Production AI gateways, agent tooling, and automation that shortens engineering cycles without skipping review.

  • LLM gateways & RAG pipelines
  • MCP and developer-agent workflows
  • Guardrails for OpenAI / Anthropic
  • AI-assisted code review with org rules
  • Permission-aware AI assistants with human-confirmed actions (Concierge, Lyx)

Cloud & Infrastructure

Multi-cloud platforms, hardened delivery, and CI/CD built for regulated and high-trust environments.

  • Cloudflare Workers, Zero Trust, AI gateway
  • AWS, GCP, Azure; Kubernetes / OpenShift
  • Terraform, Ansible, GitHub Actions, Jenkins
  • CVE pipelines; SOC 2 audit-ready, FedRAMP and FIPS delivery
  • Signed artifacts, promote-by-digest, hardened images

Open Source & Leadership

Open source as a long-running practice — packaging, community, and leadership — not a portfolio costume.

  • Jenkins Live Wall creator & maintainer (jenkinsci)
  • Concierge: AI assistant & onboarding plugin for Jenkins
  • Apache KIE committer / contributor
  • Fedora Copr packaging (cloud-init, OpenStack tooling)
  • Led teams of 8 to 60+ engineers, directly and through engineering managers
  • Hiring, mentoring, and scaling remote engineering orgs