I’m Ademar Reis, Director of Software Engineering at Red Hat, leading Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO), a first-party Azure service co-developed and co-operated with Microsoft.
I’ve spent my career on Linux. I started in 2001 at a Linux distribution company in Brazil, and I’ve followed the platform up the stack ever since: from desktop and mobile systems, to the QtWebKit browser engine, to the KVM hypervisor at Red Hat, to the operating system underneath all of Amazon and AWS, and now to managed Kubernetes running in the cloud. Different layers, same substrate.
Along the way I went from writing code to leading the people who write it. I build and lead distributed teams, often across many countries and time zones, and I care a lot about doing that well: empathetic, direct, and biased toward autonomy. Some of that conviction has turned into open-source tools for engineering management, because I think management problems deserve the same rigor we bring to technical ones.
Lately a lot of my energy goes into AI as a practical force in engineering: championing its adoption on my teams, building agents and tooling for SRE and software development, and writing more of my own software than I have in years, because the tools finally make it possible. I think this genuinely changes what engineering and engineering leadership look like, and I’d rather help shape that shift than watch it happen.
I’m originally from Brazil and was the first in my family to go to college. I moved to the United States in 2018, and I live near Boston with my wife and daughter.
That practical enthusiasm has a quieter, older companion: a long-standing personal interest in AI as a subject rather than a tool: what it can tell us about minds, intelligence, and questions people have argued over for centuries. I come at all of it from a scientific, secular, humanist point of view. There’s more to say here soon.
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