Adao Oliveira Junior

Architect.
Engineer.
Author.

Helping enterprises take AI from prototype to production. Two decades of cloud-native systems, developer tooling, and the platforms behind modern AI.

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20+ Years building
10+ Conference talks
16 Certifications
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01 — About

Two decades
of building

I'm Adao Oliveira Junior, a solutions architect and software engineer with more than two decades of experience building distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, and modern developer workflows.

My work spans architecture, product strategy, and developer adoption. At Oracle, I helped customers and partners turn complex technical requirements into production-ready cloud solutions at global scale.

Today I'm a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Dell Technologies, continuing a career at the intersection of platform engineering, cloud-native systems, AI, and developer tooling. Independently, I research portable memory and identity infrastructure for agentic AI through jun.io.

I also write, contribute to open source, and speak at events including KubeCon, Oracle Cloud World, Arc of AI, and developer conferences across the cloud-native ecosystem.

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Certifications

Current credentials across Kubernetes, cloud-native security, infrastructure automation, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

Linux Foundation / CNCF
KCSA
Kubernetes and Cloud Native Security Associate
Linux Foundation / CNCF
KCNA
Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate
Linux Foundation / CNCF
CKA
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
Linux Foundation / CNCF
CKAD
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
HashiCorp
Terraform Associate
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003)
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
OCI Architect Associate
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2020 Certified Architect Associate
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
OCI Developer Associate
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Developer 2020 Certified Associate
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
OCI Cloud Operations Associate
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2020 Certified Cloud Operations Associate
Courses
LinkedIn · Jun 2025
AI Product Development
AI Product Development: Secure by Design
LinkedIn · Jul 2025
AI Product Security
AI Product Security: Secure Architecture, Deployment, and Infrastructure
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02 — Book

Published
work

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure book cover
Pearson / Oracle Press · 2023
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
A Guide to Building Cloud Native Applications
with Jeevan Joseph & Mickey Boxell

A comprehensive guide to OCI's tools for developing modern cloud-scale applications. Each service is explored with practical examples, walking through a broad microservice-based, container-native application that fully leverages Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

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03 — Speaking

Conference
sessions

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2026
Arc of AI Conference
Austin, TX · Platform engineering for modern AI
→ 2025
Oracle AI World
Las Vegas, NV · AI-powered IDE & Spring AI on WebLogic
→ 2025
Arc of AI Conference
Austin, TX · AI at the edge, vector databases, RAG
→ 2024
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America
Salt Lake City, UT
→ 2023
Oracle Cloud World
Las Vegas, NV · Multicloud traffic steering & virtual nodes
→ 2022
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America
Detroit, MI · Unreal Pixel Streaming on Kubernetes
→ 2022
Oracle Cloud World
Las Vegas, NV · Securing Oracle Kubernetes Engine with Falco
→ 2022
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe
Valencia, Spain
→ 2022
Developer Week Cloud — Keynote
Austin, TX · Polyglot microservices across OCI & Azure
→ 2021
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America
Los Angeles, CA
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04 — Experience

Where I've
worked

Dell Technologies Austin, TX
Senior Principal Software Engineer
May 2026 — Present
  • Building at the intersection of cloud-native platform engineering, AI agents, and modern developer workflows.
jun.io Independent
AI Architect · Independent Research
2025 — Present
  • Researching and prototyping portable memory and identity infrastructure that enables AI agents and assistants to preserve context and continuity across sessions, models, tools, and execution environments.
Oracle Austin, TX
Senior Principal Cloud Solutions Architect
Sept 2022 — Sept 2025
  • Delivered MCP server on WebLogic and pioneered AI multi-agent architectures, helping enterprise customers modernize complex workloads with AI-driven automation.
  • Developed AI-enhanced IDE extensions for VS Code and IntelliJ integrating Oracle Code Assist, Copilot, and Gemini — boosting developer productivity.
  • Authored OpenRewrite migration recipes, reducing Java JDK and Jakarta EE upgrade effort by 40–60% and minimizing manual migration risks.
  • Led Kubernetes and multi-cloud adoption initiatives, guiding end-to-end OCI migrations of mission-critical workloads with near-zero downtime.
  • Developed Kubernetes Operators, CRDs, and Helm charts in Go and Java for deployments, observability plugins, Falco plugins, and WAF certificate management.
  • Delivered sessions at Oracle Cloud World, KubeCon, Arc of AI, and other industry conferences.
Senior Principal Product Manager — OCI Multi-Cloud
Jul 2022 — Sept 2022
  • Spearheaded Oracle's multi-cloud strategy, enabling seamless integration of OCI with Azure, AWS, and GCP.
  • Designed architectures uniting multi-cluster Kubernetes, database cloud services, analytics, and observability across OKE, AKS, EKS, and GKE.
  • Actively contributed to Kubernetes SIG Multi-cluster, influencing open-source standards.
Senior Principal Product Manager — OCI Developer Adoption
Nov 2020 — Jul 2022
  • Advanced Oracle's presence in the CNCF by fostering executive relationships and contributing to projects like Falco.
  • Guided enterprise customers across industries through cloud transformation journeys, resolving adoption barriers.
  • Collaborated with ISV alliances to integrate OCI Cloud Native Services with leading DevSecOps tools.
Cloud Solutions Architect — A-Team
Nov 2014 — Nov 2020
  • Designed and delivered cloud architectures for enterprise customers globally — evolving from cloud to cloud-native with a focus on containers, Kubernetes, and security.
  • Served as a trusted advisor through every stage of the SDLC: pre-sales, architecture, development, implementation, and post-sales.
  • Designed solutions showcased on the main OCI Console page, delivering lasting value to all cloud users.
Principal Solutions Architect — A-Team
May 2011 — Nov 2014 · Redwood City, CA
  • Led complex projects within the Fusion Middleware A-Team, a global software engineering group, addressing challenges in on-premises and cloud environments.
  • Mentored junior architects, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.
Earlier Experience
Previous roles
Principal & Senior Sales Consultant — Oracle, Brazil 2008 — 2011
Senior Systems Engineer — BEA Systems Jan – Jun 2008
Senior Architect SOA & ECM + Pre-Sales — Software AG, Madrid 2005 — 2007
Systems Engineers Manager — Stellent 1999 — 2005
Systems Analyst — Xerox, Brazil 1998 — 1999
05 — Projects

Things I'm
building

Independent research · Agentic AI
jun.io

Portable memory and identity infrastructure for AI agents and assistants, designed to preserve context and continuity across sessions, models, tools, and execution environments.

jun.io
Open source · AI Agents
skilla

A small bash CLI that installs Agent Skills from any git repo into coding agents like Claude Code and Devin — resolving skill dependencies along the way.

github.com/junior/skilla
Open source · Multi-cloud
whereami

A lightweight container that reveals where it's running — detecting the cloud provider and point of presence serving the request. Handy for validating multi-cloud and edge deployments.

github.com/junior/whereami
Open source · Kubernetes
nginx-ingress-probe

A diagnostics page to verify the NGINX Plus Ingress Controller after an upgrade — surfacing routing, headers, and connectivity details so platform teams can confirm everything works as expected.

github.com/junior/nginx-ingress-probe
Open source · Cloudflare Workers
edgecheck

How close are you to the internet edge? A Cloudflare Workers app that measures your proximity to the nearest edge location, revealing the PoP serving you and the latency to get there.

edgecheck.add.workers.dev
Open source · Postman
OCI REST APIs

A practical Postman workspace for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure REST APIs, designed to reduce onboarding time and make service exploration easier for builders and platform teams.

postman.com/oracledevs
Open source
GitHub

Open-source work across Kubernetes, cloud-native tooling, demos, reference architectures, and experiments shared publicly.

github.com/junior