# Eduardo Cerqueira

> 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.

Tagline: Hands-on engineering leader · Platform, AI & DevSecOps
Location: Boca Raton, FL
Languages: English, Portuguese
Profiles: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ecerquei/, https://github.com/eduardocerqueira, https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/eduardocerqueira/
Last updated: 2026-10-26

## About

I’ve always been driven by curiosity and the desire to understand how things work — and then figure out how to make them better. My career has given me the opportunity to work across many sides of software engineering, from writing and shipping code to designing systems, solving complex problems, building quality and delivery processes, and leading technical teams.

My foundation is in software engineering and the full software development lifecycle. I’ve worked hands-on with multiple programming languages and technologies, while also spending years designing distributed systems, improving engineering practices, and leading teams through complex and high-pressure situations. I enjoy moving between the technical details and the bigger picture, whether that means debugging a difficult problem, making an architectural decision, or helping a team find a better way forward.

I’m naturally analytical and a design thinker. I like breaking complex problems into simpler pieces, looking at them from different perspectives, and finding practical solutions. I’m also comfortable learning something completely new when the problem requires it. For me, technology has never been about mastering a fixed list of tools — it’s about continuously learning, experimenting, and understanding enough to build the right solution.

My path has taken me from hands-on engineering and open source, through Principal-level technical work and engineering management at Red Hat, to senior engineering leadership at IBM, and ultimately to co-founding Aletyx, where I now have the opportunity to combine engineering, product, operations, business, and customer perspectives every day.

At Aletyx, being a co-founder and Head of Engineering means wearing many hats. It requires technical depth, creativity, commitment, customer focus, decision-making under pressure, and the willingness to get involved wherever the company needs me. I enjoy that. Building something from the ground up has reinforced something I’ve learned throughout my career: the ability to learn, adapt, and solve problems is often more valuable than knowing the answer before you start.

I care about building things that are useful, reliable, secure, and built to last — but I also care about the people behind them. Technology is ultimately about solving problems for people, and that perspective has shaped how I approach engineering, leadership, products, and business.

Open source has been an important part of that journey as well, giving me a way to learn, contribute, collaborate, and give back to the communities that helped shape my career.

I’m bilingual in English and Portuguese, and I remain curious about what’s next — not because I have a fixed destination in mind, but because there is always something new to learn, build, understand, or improve.

## Career

### 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.
- Built the team and operating model from zero: hiring, onboarding, 1:1s, Scrum, and RFCs; 100+ merged PRs per sprint with merge times under one day
- Took security from ad hoc to SOC 2 audit-ready; automated control coverage from 30% to 90% in three months
- Built the release and security pipeline: signed artifacts, promote-by-digest, CVE gate; critical/high CVEs from 58 to zero, hardened images 40% smaller
- Built and maintain the IDE tooling: VS Code and IntelliJ extensions with automated marketplace publishing, and Lyx, the team's VS Code developer portal
- Built LLM and MCP integrations (OpenAI, Anthropic, Llama, Cloudflare AI) with token metering, guardrails, and prompt-injection detection

### 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.
- Turned around a product facing customer escalations: grew engineering from 20+ to 60+ and moved releases from quarterly to monthly
- Led FedRAMP and FIPS delivery through IBM CISO audits; rebuilt CI/CD from scratch
- Modernized the CVE pipeline: 5x faster to identify, fix, and report
- Apache KIE committer; won executive support for the open-source upstream

### 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.
- Partnered with SRE on continuous delivery to production (several releases per day per service), with automated release gating and SLO/SLA monitoring
- Built telemetry across 100+ components, 10k+ daily test runs, and 1k+ weekly cloud nodes for one view of release health
- Ran coaching and performance reviews with 2 engineering managers; started cross-region tech talks

### 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.
- Built performance/stress frameworks and Grafana integrations (Python, Java, Go)
- Expanded CI/CD and cloud-init / QCOW automation adopted org-wide via message-bus–triggered pipelines
- Hired and mentored ICs; interview loop and career framework training

### Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Westford, MA · 2016-06 to 2019-12

Built and scaled the first dedicated QE team for Red Hat Insights — functional, integration/E2E, and performance automation — while leading test systems for Hybrid Cloud Console services.
- Developed Insights test automation and expanded CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure
- Maintained downstream cloud-init and led QCOW image automation adopted broadly across teams
- QE lead for Kafka, 3scale, Akamai CDN, and microservices on console.redhat.com

### Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat
Westford, MA · 2014-08 to 2016-05

Interop and CI-focused engineer building frameworks for lifecycle testing across RHEL and Red Hat products; contributed to Continuous Integration Scale practices across QE.
- Interop testing across RHEL, RHV, Satellite, Gluster, Identity Management, OpenStack, and Ansible
- Member of the Continuous Integration Scale committee promoting CI/CD best practices in QE

### Team Lead, Software Release Engineer (DevOps), World Travel Holdings
Wilmington, MA · 2013 to 2014

Led the release engineering / DevOps team — planning, configuration management, CI scaling, and cross-functional delivery with PM, BA, DEV, DBA, QA, and networking.
- Automated build and release processes with Python, Ant, Maven, Bash, Java, and Ansible
- Managed Selenium Grid for mobile and web automation; centralized logging with Logstash, Elasticsearch, and Redis
- Virtualization and HA design for Tomcat/JBoss, Apache/IIS, and load-balanced clusters

### Senior Software Release Engineer (DevOps), World Travel Holdings
Remote, Brazil · 2009 to 2013

Built the Release Engineering / DevOps capability — CI with Hudson/Jenkins, deployment frameworks, and Selenium Grid — bridging Brazil and US engineering teams.
- Hired and trained release engineers; defined scope and process with VP sponsorship
- Implemented CI for internal apps and websites, integrating bug tracker and ticket systems
- Built a scalable Selenium/Appium GRID (~15 nodes) used by QA automation, integrated with Jenkins and JMeter

### Java Engineer, Team Lead & Project Manager, Earlier career · Brazil
Brazil

Java and ERP engineering, team leadership, and B2B/B2C ecommerce and payments projects. Led a Java team through ERP migrations, managed ecommerce and data-center projects, and coordinated the Brazil development team with US engineering at World Travel Holdings.


## Projects

### Aletyx platform & AI gateway
Product · 2025 · Java, AI LLM, SaaS, Security
Website: https://aletyx.ai/ai-assistant/

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 · TypeScript, VS Code, AI LLM, DevEx
Website: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Aletyx.aletyx-lyx

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 · Java, Business Automation, Open Source
Website: https://kie.apache.org/

Open-source business automation community (KIE). Contributor and committer work alongside IBM Business Automation Manager Open Editions leadership.

### Jenkins Live Wall
CI / DevOps · 2026 · Java, Jenkins, Plugin
Website: https://plugins.jenkins.io/live-wall/
Source: https://github.com/jenkinsci/live-wall-plugin

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 · Java, Jenkins, AI LLM, Plugin
Source: https://github.com/eduardocerqueira/concierge-plugin

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 · Fedora, RPM, cloud-init, Linux
Website: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/eduardocerqueira/

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 · Python, Kafka, OpenShift, CI/CD, Grafana
Website: https://console.redhat.com/

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 · Python, GitHub Actions, Hugging Face, Agents
Website: https://aialphasquad.com
Source: https://github.com/eduardocerqueira/ai-alpha-squad

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 · TypeScript, React, Cloudflare Workers, Chrome Extension
Website: https://getalight.me
Source: https://github.com/eduardocerqueira/getalight.me

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 · Python, Go, TypeScript, RAG
Source: https://github.com/eduardocerqueira/AI-sandbox

Personal monorepo of small, runnable AI experiments — agents, RAG, Hugging Face, LangChain, CrewAI, and MCP — each app self-contained and easy to tear down.

### nix-devshells
Developer tools · 2026 · Nix, Flakes, DevX
Source: https://github.com/eduardocerqueira/nix-devshells

Reproducible Nix flake-based dev shells for macOS and Linux — general, latest, AI/ML, and DevOps profiles that coexist with other Nix setups.

### Pi VPN Gateway
Hardware / Networking · 2026 · Shell, WireGuard, Raspberry Pi
Source: https://github.com/eduardocerqueira/pi-vpn-gateway

Turn a Raspberry Pi into a secure Wi-Fi VPN gateway using WireGuard — TVs join a dedicated AP while all traffic routes through NordVPN and the home network stays untouched.

### image-scale
Developer tools · 2025 · Python, Pillow
Source: https://github.com/eduardocerqueira/image-scale

Batch Python script to scale PNG/JPG images for the web by percentage or max width/height while keeping aspect ratio and optimizing quality.

### wd-plugin-content-loader
Web · 2024 · PHP, WordPress
Source: https://github.com/eduardocerqueira/wd-plugin-content-loader

WordPress plugin for multi-language content loading — stores language-specific HTML in a custom table and swaps page content from a language dropdown.

### s3-pull-processor
Cloud / CI · 2022 · Python, AWS S3, SQS, Docker
Source: https://github.com/eduardocerqueira/s3-pull-processor

POC for uploading pipeline artifacts to S3/SQS and consuming them with a scalable, containerized processor ready for Kubernetes/OpenShift.

### linknotfound
Developer tools · 2022 · Python, GitHub, S3
Source: https://github.com/eduardocerqueira/linknotfound

POC client/server tool that scans application source for broken links, reports to S3, and presents findings in a web UI.

### jenkins-elasticsearch
CI / DevOps · 2021 · Jenkins, Elasticsearch, Grafana, Docker
Source: https://github.com/eduardocerqueira/jenkins-elasticsearch

Docker Compose stack wiring Jenkins build data into Elasticsearch, ElasticHQ, and Grafana for CI observability demos.

### elf-bot
Bots · 2021 · Python, Slack, OpenStack
Source: https://github.com/eduardocerqueira/elf-bot

Slack bot that connects engineers to JIRA, OpenStack, and OpenShift for everyday tasks — with a bit of workplace humor.

### schedulevac
Automation · 2021 · Python, Selenium
Source: https://github.com/eduardocerqueira/schedulevac

Selenium-based helper that finds available spots when scheduling a service — automates the “is there an opening?” check.

### slackapp
Bots · 2021 · Python, Slack Bolt
Source: https://github.com/eduardocerqueira/slackapp

Getting-started Slack app on the Bolt framework — slash commands and interactive messages for VM provision/list/delete experiments.

### Janitor
Cloud / CI · 2017 · Python, OpenStack, RPM, Docker
Source: https://github.com/eduardocerqueira/janitor

Linux CLI for OpenStack tenant quota hygiene — whitelist-driven cleanup of leftover VMs, networks, and volumes so CI tenants stay healthy.

### pkgpoc
Packaging · 2017 · Python, RPM, Copr, Tito
Source: https://github.com/eduardocerqueira/pkgpoc

Study project for Fedora RPM packaging with Tito, Mock, Copr, Sphinx man pages, and a Makefile-driven release flow.

### cd2cloud
Personal · 2017 · Python, abcde, Linux
Source: https://github.com/eduardocerqueira/cd2cloud

Linux tool that watches for audio CDs, rips tracks with abcde, and moves digital files to a private home cloud — built to digitize a large CD collection.

### stockAPI
Personal · 2018 · Python, APIs
Source: https://github.com/eduardocerqueira/stockAPI

Study project consuming free stock market APIs (IEX, Alpha Vantage) for learning — not for production trading.

### cloudbitsgo
Cloud / CI · 2016 · Python, AWS, Linux, RPM
Source: https://github.com/eduardocerqueira/cloudbitsgo

Linux migration helper that copies files from source to destination, verifies the copy, then replaces the original with a symlink — used for live AWS EBS → EFS moves.

### mypublicip
Networking · 2016 · Python, RPM, Linux
Source: https://github.com/eduardocerqueira/mypublicip

Notifies you when your ISP renews your public IP — useful for home servers, SSH tunnels, and proxies without a static address.

### demo
Packaging · 2016 · Python, RPM, Copr
Source: https://github.com/eduardocerqueira/demo

Study project for GitHub and Fedora packaging workflows — argparse script, Makefile, Sphinx docs, and Copr RPM builds.

### Sing and Dance
Personal · 2015 · Java, Android
Source: https://github.com/eduardocerqueira/sing

Simple Android app for kids up to age three — tap a character to play its full theme song. Built so a toddler could sing and dance without a half-length toy microphone.

## 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

## Open source and organizations

- Jenkins Project, Creator & Maintainer: Creator and maintainer of Jenkins Live Wall, an official plugin donated to the Jenkins open-source community. Member of the jenkinsci GitHub organization; the plugin turns Jenkins into a real-time pipeline monitoring wall for office screens. Also author of Concierge, a permission-aware AI assistant and onboarding plugin submitted to the Jenkins project.
- Apache Software Foundation, Committer: Earned the Apache Software Foundation Committer license as an active contributor to the Apache KIE open-source community. Actively involved in the development and enhancement of the upstream KIE project.
- Boston University (BU Spark!) Innovation Mentorship Program, Mentor: Innovation specialist mentor and coach for BU alumni through the BU Spark! Innovation Mentorship Program.

## Education

- Professional Certificate, Cloud & DevOps, MIT Professional Education
- Professional Certificate, Leadership & Innovation, MIT Professional Education
- Postgraduate Specialization (MBA), Project Management, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- BSc Computer Science, Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais

## Certifications

- Apache Committer, The Apache Software Foundation (2023)
- Open Source Committer, IBM (2024)
- Open Source Contributor, IBM (2024)
- License to Lead – First-Line Manager, IBM (2024)
- Red Hat Certified Specialist in Deployment and Systems Management, Red Hat (2017)
- Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA), Red Hat (2015)
- ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL), ISTQB (2017)
- Certified ScrumMaster, Scrum Alliance (2012)