Edson Tirelli is a Senior Principal Software Engineer and Development Manager at Red Hat and the Project Lead for Drools, Red Hat's open source Rules Engine and Decision Management platform. He has more than 15 years of experience in enterprise software development and has been working on design and development of the Drools project since 2004. He is an active member of the OMG Revision Task Force for DMN 1.2 and a member of the community-driven DMN Technology Compatibility Kit. For the last two years has been actively working on the Drools DMN engine implementation and promoting the DMN standard in the community. Edson is a frequent presenter at conferences like bpmNEXT, DecisionCAMP, Red Hat Summit, QCon, among others, on themes related to business rules and decision management. His main interests are general AI research, decision management, knowledge representation, blockchain, complex event processing (CEP), formal languages and compilers. Outside work, you can find him enjoying some outdoor activities with his wife in and around the Great Lakes near Toronto, Canada.
