Staff Engineer and one of the earliest members of The C++ Alliance, a nonprofit that funds work on the Boost libraries, C++ tooling and the ISO C++ standard.

I designed the architecture of MrDocs, our open-source documentation generator for modern C++, built directly on the Clang and LLVM compiler front end and now being adopted across the Boost libraries. I set its technical direction, keeping its brilliant and independent contributors converging on it and up to speed on the Clang internals. My other projects:

• cpp-actions, the CI automation used by Boost libraries and the Alliance's projects, which I created and maintain
• Matplot++, one of the most widely used C++ plotting libraries
• Boost.URL, which I co-authored, took through Boost's peer review, and have maintained in every Boost release since 1.81, one of twenty Boost libraries I have contributed to

Before the Alliance:

• a Marie Curie fellowship
• aircraft-engine design at the Rolls-Royce Technology Centre in the UK
• a visiting professorship at McGill and the Université de Montréal
• a decade as a professor at the Federal University of Ouro Preto, teaching advanced C++ and research methods up to the doctoral level

My PhD in computational intelligence, the evolutionary and neural side of AI, and my work in mathematical optimization led to methods I have applied to music composition, aircraft-engine and electric-motor design, energy storage for smart cities, and logistics. Rewriting one of those algorithms in C++ turned a coffee break into half a second, moved my research to C++, and led to Matplot++, so that scientific computing could stay in C++, where I now sit on the ISO committee (WG21). I have more than 50 peer-reviewed publications, two of them in the journals ranked first in the world in computer science and in mathematics, and a best-paper award at GECCO, the world's largest conference on evolutionary computation. I also coordinated Aluno Integrado, a program that taught programming to more than 10,000 students from low-income regions of Brazil.

I grew up in the countryside of Minas Gerais, Brazil, and have lived all around the world since. Off the clock, I cook, play guitar, and spend time with my dog.

🔭 Working on MrDocs, Boost.URL and cpp-actions · 💬 Ask me about C++ library and API design, documentation tooling, the Clang AST, or optimization · 🌐 alandefreitas.github.io · 💼 LinkedIn