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Montreal, Qc, Ca

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Leadership responsibility of 5 development squads. Responsible for the growth of individuals and defining vision of our products. Enhancing my team’s day to day by continuously increasing their motivation and business value.• Overhauled team structure into product focused squads to improve team synergies and efficiency• Continuous product roadmap and vision development aligned with team’s expertise in order of ensuring a motivated team• Coordinated budgets exceeding 2M$ a year• Creation and expansion of a leadership community • Established a product and team north star, incorporating iterative milestones in order of achieving such a goal • Implemented multi-sectorial process improvements for customer care tickets which resulted in a 500% decrease in TTR• Influenced business in adopting a new and ambitious method of managing partner authentication designed for a game changing customers experience • Introduced a culture of delivering smaller but faster incremental value to our customers by challenging the team in improving our current execution• Refined team development maturity by integrating new team members with immerging skillsets• Restructured team’s product owners, scrum masters, senior devs, and technical leads to grant better focus and support leading to increased velocity• Revitalized development quality and experimentation enablement with the help of peer programming, Clean code, hackathons, knowledge sharing sessions• Introduced code coverage targets, test types, and environment evolution as newly defined yearly team and individual objectives better reflecting service quality

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Leadership role within a purely software developer team, assisting the team with various challenges and applying best practices for CI/CD and DevOpsKey Deliverables:• Enhanced partnership with vendors• Introduction and delivery of transformational activities• Coaching Devs in CI/CD and DevOps• Bringing in customer first philosophy back into priority• Increased security of services and customers• Increased resiliency of services, clustering, geo-deployment with least Ops overheadCapabilities acquired:• Increased CI/CD and testing knowledge• Docker swarm scaling and testing• Customer facing services development• IaaS as a user• Usage and scaling of MongoDb

Montreal, Canada Area

Python and Ansible developer within a CI/CD methodology for the continuous growth of the IaaS initiative.Key Deliverables:• Self Serve infrastructure access• Evolving infrastructure with features and resiliency• Infrastructure support• Infrastructure test development• Infrastructure bug fixesCapabilities acquired:• CI/CD Pipeline manipulation and development• Understanding of Code Reviewing• Increased Python and Ansible Scripting• Application of test driven development• Architecture and development of python application for live event management

Montreal, Canada Area

Being part of a supporting role within the transformation of how infrastructure is being used across a large organization.Key Deliverables:• Ops model for IaaS • Delivered 3 Sites (Physical + Network Fabric + Openstack)• Service Geo redundancy from idea to production (12 team members)• Forming of 6 self-organizing teams capable of integrating improvements in their day to day workCapabilities acquired:• Team leadership and motivation• Coaching team from an ambiguous vision to implementation with focus • Budget, time and scope management• Scrum Agile methodologies• Ninja level JIRA skills • Lead workshops and Improvement Kata

Montreal, Canada Area

Introduction to infrastructure as a service and Openstack. Taking part of a small team kick starting IaaS within a large organization.Key Deliverables:• POC of five alternatives in deploying Openstack• System logging POC with ELK deployment• POC of two alternatives of customized monitoring and alarming of cloud infrastructure and network gear• CI/CD POC for tesing Zabbix custom checks in Python• Automation of Zabbix agent deployment in Ansible• Lab Openstack deploymentCapabilities acquired:• Understanding of infrastructure automation tools such as HEAT, MaaS, and Juju.• Understanding of system monitoring tools such as ELK• Understanding of Openstack mechanics• Understanding of CI/CD and DevOps operations and their values in the evolution of a technology focused company• Python and Ansible scripting

Montreal, Canada Area

Linux system administrator for a variety of Value added ServicesKey Deliverables:• Deployment of 8 new or optimized Value added services• System administrator support of 16 various services over 100s of servers• Deployment and support of Zabbix monitoring systemCapabilities acquired:• Strong Linux and Bash skills• Understanding of web servers, Java applications and REST APIs, proxies, SIP protocol, Mail Relays, RADIUS, MySQL, and video streaming• Fundamentals of network load balancer and firewall troubleshooting