Alan Cabrera

Alan Cabrera is a highly experienced technology professional currently serving as a Staff Infrastructure Engineer at Nextdata since March 2025. With a long-standing affiliation with The Apache Software Foundation as a member since 2007, Cabrera has held prominent engineering roles across various organizations, including Staff Engineer at Keebo, Inc. and Staff Software Engineer positions at Thumbtack and Niantic, Inc. Prior experience includes serving as a Staff Engineer at LinkedIn and Chief Architect at Picateers, where technology for a popular school photography site was developed. Cabrera has also held the role of VP Engineering at Simula Labs and contributed as a Principal Consultant at GlueCode, focusing on Apache Geronimo. Earlier in the career, Cabrera was the Vice President of Software Development at Reuters, overseeing teams that provided financial data services. Alan Cabrera earned a BS in Mathematics from Michigan State University.