Eduardo Cerqueira Email & Phone Number

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

🚀 Engineering Manager | Global Team Leader | Open-Source AdvocatePassionate about leading and empowering high-performing teams to drive innovation, I currently serve as an Engineering Manager, overseeing a dynamic and diverse group of highly skilled software engineers spread across 8+ countries.🌐 Global Impact:I take pride in orchestrating a global team that thrives on collaboration and innovation. Together, we contribute actively to the KIE Community in the Apache Software Foundation, championing open-source initiatives and fostering a culture of continuous learning.💡 Strategic Collaboration:In my role, I collaborate seamlessly with cross-functional teams, including product management, support, documentation, and security. Our collective goal is to implement an advanced platform for modeling and automating business processes (BMPN2), utilizing Decision Model and Notation (DMN) and business rules.🏆 Achievements:I am proud of the milestones we've achieved, transforming concepts into reality and delivering cutting-edge solutions. Our commitment to excellence has positioned us as leaders in the realm of business process automation.🌟 Key Skills:Leadership & Team BuildingGlobal CollaborationOpen-Source AdvocacyBusiness Process Modeling (BMPN2)Decision Model and Notation (DMN)Business Rules Implementation

Raleigh, Nc, Us

In this role, I controlled distributed Quality Engineer teams for Red Hat Hybrid Cloud testing and Red Hat Insights. I collaborate closely with SRE and development team as well as with cross-functional teams as (Product and Program Managers, Security, and Performance) teams for framework and tools testing, functional/e2e and performance tests automation, and CI/CD infra and pipelines, release process, SLO/SLA monitoring. While delivering strategic management to distributed teams. Streamline the distribution process of teams located in NA, EMEA, and LATAM. Enhance transparency between engineering teams, developers, and quality engineers.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

In this role, I implemented automated tests, internal tools, system design, and system architecture discussions. Also, I controlled teams and trained individual contributors, reviewed performance, and supported bonus allocation. While supervising three teams for testing back-end SaaS for Red Hat Insights management application. Along these, I performed a variety of technical tasks, including presenting new ideas, creating prototypes and proposals for new initiatives, defining system design, and implementing internal tools for testing, data, and metrics visualization.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

I hired and trained processes for building the first dedicated QE team to test Red Hat Insights. As well as, I contributed to implementing the framework for performance and stress tests. Initiated and executed functional, integration/e2e, and performance test. While, monitoring coding in Python, Groovy, Ansible, and a long list of frameworks.Key Contributions:• Developed and maintained the test automation for insights, proposed enhancements to the framework, and expanded CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure.• Maintained a downstream cloud-init repo and served as developer lead for an automation project to create cloud QCOW images based on RHEL compose for testing components, that solution was adopted by several other teams and integrated into a universal message bus, triggering CI pipelines.• Pivotal as QE lead for Red Hat Insights SaaS platform for testing Kafka, 3scale, Akamai CDN, and several micro-services apps running on Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console, a.k.a console.redhat.com• Executed interoperability testing scenarios for a complex testing matrix with Red Hat Insights and RHEL components.• Engaged in cross-functional agile projects with QE/DEV/PM aligning expectations and planning QE activities.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

During this time I was working as a developer/QE of the product interop testing team; We implemented tools and framework for testing Red Hat products and components; Also supported other teams that were running our framework; * Member of Interop Testing team contributed with frameworks for testing and automationtest scenarios for complete lifecycle test for RHEL Linux components and multiple RedHat products such as RHV, Satellite, Gluster, Identity Management, Openstack, and Ansible.* Member or Continuous Integration Scale committee, discussing, promoting andimplementing CI/CD best practices in Quality Engineer Organization.

Wakefield, Ma, Us

* Planning and prioritizing tasks for Release Engineer, DevOps team, working withcross-functional teams (PM, BA, DEV, DBA, QA, NET) to develop and improve configuration management, build processes and policies, and encourage best practices to meet business goals.* Writing codes on Python, Ant, Maven, Bash, Java, Ansible for automating processes and scaling continuous integration environment.* Manage Selenium GRID for Automation tests with Mobile devices and web applications and hands-on in codes integrating Selenium with several APIs for Mobile and web automation tests* Implemented several adds-on for Bugzilla, Ticket System RT Best Practical, and Opsview and Nagios, supporting the network engineer team.* Work on Centralized logs project using Logstash, ElasticSearch, and Redis * Work on virtualization projects and new system design for Application Servers (Tomcat and JBoss), Webservers (Apache and IIS), running on Cluster and on Load Balancer (Netscaler), performance optimization, and security issues.* Work on Big Data project using Apache Hadoop for customer recommendation engine on Mobile platform and websites

Wakefield, Ma, Us

* With the support of my VP whom I was reporting on at that time, I participated in building the Release Engineer DevOps team, hired and trained engineers, and defined work scope and process.* Implemented Continuous Integration using Hudson/Jenkins for internal applications and websites, integrating with bug tracker and ticket system, and extended deployment framework to support ASP and JAVA applications.* Implemented Testing framework extending Selenium API and Apium for mobile and web testing, it was used by the QA Automation team. The framework runs on different platforms (desktop and mobile) with multiple nodes (15) in a GRID. Scalable and integrated with Jenkins, source code repository and bug tracker, and Jmeter for performance test.* Manage Appdynamics monitoring production servers, ActiveMQ supporting clients connected in queues and monitoring DevOps.

Wakefield, Ma, Us

* Assisted IT Manager coordinating local/Brazil dev team and working as an interface with the USAdev team merging internal applications and infrastructure platforms.* Introduced Agile practices as stand-up daily meetings using Agile XP methodology* Improved bug tracker system (Bugzilla), code-review process, introduced and trainedteams with git and migrated projects from the CVS source code repository to git.

* Manage several projects as B2B, B2C e-commerce/websites, 3rd-party payment servicesintegration, data center migrations, and network and security improvements.

* Designed and prototyped internal tools, automating processes and releases* Migration legacy Java servlet to JSP with struts and hibernate.* Contributed to implementing an innovative framework for the tourism industry on the JAVA platform,core team allocated to the USA. During the integration phase of this framework, I assist the teamwith roles as Oracle Database Admin and Network Engineer deploying Linux HA servers.

Brasília, Df, Br

* The lead of the dev JAVA team, with 6 developers in-site and doing interface with outsourcing software factory, data structure, and modeling business requirements to UML* Migration ERP and internal applications from ColdFusion, Delphi, VB, and MSSQL to JAVA (web and desktop) Apache Struts and hibernate, and Oracle DB.* Implemented Continuous Integration with a fully automated releases process with cruise control, common share libraries with Maven repository.

* ERP analyst, supporting business areas such as Manufacturing and Supply Chain* Maintain Store Procedures in Progress Database and support for BI Reports

Professional Certificate, Cloud & Devops

Professional Certificate, Leadership & Innovation

2007, Mba Project Management - Master Project Management

2003, Bsc Computer Science