Edson Tirelli
Red Hat OpenShift AI - Senior Principal Software Engineer
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Edson Tirelli is a senior principal software engineer and experienced engineering manager with 20+ years building enterprise software, AI, decision management and cloud-native platforms, currently shaping OpenShift AI at Red Hat from Toronto. He has led multi-disciplinary, distributed teams across 10+ countries, driving product deliveries that served thousands of customers and generated multi‑million dollar revenue while shortening release cycles to predictable quarterly cadences. A long-time Drools/OptaPlanner contributor and project lead, he combines deep rule-engine and constraint‑solving expertise with hands-on build/release automation and core engine refactoring work in notable open-source projects. Edson blends strategic architecture and community evangelism—speaking at international conferences and representing standards bodies—with pragmatic engineering, having implemented XAI for compliance and cloud event-driven solutions. Notably, his background spans both core compiler/engine development and practical operational tooling, making him comfortable from low-level optimization to large-scale product leadership.
20 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (60)
container-management10
unit-testing10
debugging10
debug10
server-manager10
scripting10
jbpm10
processmaker10
solver10
drools10
data-serialization10
workflow-engine10
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refactor10
rule-engine10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
apache/incubator-kie-kogito-runtimes
Feb 2006 - Feb 2019
Kogito Runtimes - Kogito is a cloud-native business automation technology for building cloud-ready business applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1894 commits in 13 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Edson's commits primarily involve adding and modifying test cases, with a focus on the Drools rule engine and specifically the Drools core module. The user added test cases for features related to rule execution, data handling, and variable manipulation within the Drools framework. The commits also include some changes to grammar files for expression parsing.
kogitoknativebusiness-automationrule-enginedrools
apache/incubator-kie-drools
Feb 2006 - Sep 2019
Drools is a rule engine, DMN engine and complex event processing (CEP) engine for Java.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2154 commits, 195 PRs, 177 pushes in 13 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Edson's commits primarily involve modifying and improving the Drools rule engine, focusing on bug fixes and enhancements. This includes addressing issues related to cut-and-paste code, thread class loader references, and the behavior of decision table execution. The user's work primarily revolves around core logic and code improvements within the Drools engine. The user also addressed issues related to the marshaling processes.
droolsbusiness-rulesdmn-engineevent-processingcomplex-event-processing
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