About
Complex systems. Clearly expressed.
Alan Abreu is an engineer working across Platform Engineering, DevSecOps, Cloud and Reliability, with a growing focus on Applied AI.
The through line is treating engineering itself as a system: delivery, security, infrastructure and operations are one connected surface, not separate departments handing work to each other.
Brazil — working remotely
Focus areas
- Platform Engineering and golden paths
- DevSecOps and software supply chain
- Cloud architecture and infrastructure as code
- Reliability, SLOs and observability
- Applied AI for engineering workflows
Engineering principles
- Demonstrate over claim.
- Make architecture and decisions inspectable.
- Prefer boring, recoverable systems.
- Automate the path, not the thinking.
- A control nobody trusts gets bypassed.
Trajectory
- Now
Platform & DevSecOps Engineering
Building internal platforms and secure delivery systems, and exploring grounded AI for operational knowledge.
- Earlier
Cloud & Reliability Engineering
Cloud infrastructure, observability baselines and incident response across multi-team environments.
- Before that
Infrastructure & Automation
Linux systems, networking and automation work that shaped the platform mindset.
Selected competencies
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Argo CD
- GitHub Actions
- OpenTelemetry
- Prometheus
- OPA / Rego
- Azure
- AWS
- Linux
- TypeScript
- Python
Looking for evidence rather than claims? Read the case studies.