Alex Porcelli is Co-founder and CEO of Aletyx and a seasoned architect with nearly 30 years of experience. A long-time open-source contributor and member of the Apache KIE Project Management Committee, he has spent over 15 years leading Drools, jBPM, and Kogito, foundational technologies for deterministic, reasoning-based AI and enterprise automation. As Chief Architect and Engineering Leader at IBM (and previously at Red Hat), he led IBM's first open-source product, following the Red Hat model. At Aletyx, we build systems where AI and governed decision execution work together in mission-critical environments.