About
I am Nuno Alves, an engineering leader. Twenty-five years in software, twenty of them leading teams, from embedded systems through carrier grade network software to cloud platforms.
What I do now
I run Platform engineering at Entrust, in identity verification. Platform there means the layer everyone else builds on: workflow orchestration, the public APIs, the reliability work nobody notices until it is missing, and more recently agentic AI and EU digital identity.
The job has not changed much in ten years, only the altitude. Decide what we own. Decide who owns it. Keep the architecture and the org chart from drifting apart, because once they drift, most of what goes wrong afterwards is a symptom of that.
What I build outside work
Mostly agent systems at the moment: a terminal coding agent of my own, skills and extensions for it, multi-agent setups that do not behave the way the demos imply. Also a barcode scanner that scores supermarket food, this site itself, and a bench power supply, because I never entirely left embedded systems behind.
The projects page has the current set, and the writing covers agent systems, platform engineering and engineering leadership.
What this site is
The workshop. Rough, current, and honest about the parts that did not work.
If you came here from LinkedIn, that profile is the record: titles, dates, scope. This is the other half, and it is the half where you can check whether I still build things myself. What it is not: a portfolio, a consulting pitch, or a place I publish things only once I am sure of them.
Getting in touch
Email is the fastest way to reach me. LinkedIn has the CV, GitHub has the code.
Everything here is written on my own time. The views are mine, not my employer's.