Timeline
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.