Andre Lustosa

I'm a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, serving as Team Lead for the Ecosystems Team within AIPCC (AI Platform Core Components). As a technical leader, I focus on multiplying team impact through architecture, mentorship, and driving strategic technical initiatives across the AI platform infrastructure.

Current Work

Our team enables AI/ML workloads across RHEL AI, RHAAIS, and OpenShift AI. We build and serve packages for multiple accelerator architectures including:

• NVIDIA CUDA
• AMD ROCm
• Google TPU
• Intel Gaudi
• IBM Spyre
• AWS Neuron

Background

I completed my PhD at NC State University (2019-2025), where I focused on software engineering research. Prior to being a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, I served as Principal Software Quality Engineer on the same team and worked as CTO/Technical Lead at Oceansoft.

Research

My PhD research focused on Applied AI for Software Engineering, specifically:

• Problem complexity measuring
• Search-based software engineering
• Human-in-the-loop AI
• Simplified hyperparameter optimization

Links

• GitHub
• Google Scholar
• LinkedIn
• CV

Contact

• Email: alustosa@redhat.com
• Website: alustos.us