Résumé Alex Pilon - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada - Position: Solutions architect, IMRSV Data Labs (ANVIL) - Hats: architect, backend, frontend, sysadmin, DevOps, admin, FDE, compliance Work Experience - ~~Miralaw~~ IMRSV Data Labs, full-time, May 2015 - present - LiveQoS, co-op, May-Aug 2014 - GENBAND (now Ribbon Communications), co-op, May - Aug 2012, Jan - Dec 2013 - JSI Telecom, intern, Jul - Aug 2010, May - Aug 2011 Languages, technologies, etc. Not all listed, just likely relevant. Long tail of eclectic small things. Classical sysadmin, cloud, and web dev bent. - Current and fluent: Python (primarily), JavaScript/TypeScript, PL/pgSQL HTML/(S)CSS/SASS, Make, POSIX shell, AWK - Past, various levels of fluency: Ruby, Java, C (embedded or hosted), C#, C++, XQuery. - Linux production ‘server’ (as a router, switch, hypervisor, container host, classical application/name/mail/filesystem/etc. server, and tunnels) - kernel ABI, everything above starting at the initramfs - Linux desktop as an implementor or integrator, not just a user, have seen many phases of the evolution of Linux - Arch, Fedora/CentOS/RHEL, Ubuntu, Alpine, Debian, Amazon Linux, passing use of CoreOS/FCOS/RHCOS - Classical Linux sysadmin or Docker/Compose/BuildKit, Kubernetes/Helm - AWS, GCP, Heroku (past) - Frameworks: Django, Django REST Framework, Ruby on Rails, Flask/Quart/FastAPI/etc., React, Celery, NumPy/SciPy/Pandas/Jupyter/Airflow - Databases and datastores: PostgreSQL (particularly proficient), Redis, ElasticSearch, S3/Min.IO, SQLite3 (past) - Observability: Grafana/Thanos/Mimir/Loki/Tempo/Pyroscope, Prometheus/Alertmanager, OpenTelemetry - IP/TCP/TLS/HTTP/1/2/3/WebSockets, SIP (formerly), SMTP, 802.11 and .1x - Busybox/Heirloom Vi/Vis/Vim/NeoVim, can fly in set -o vi and a few others - Git (+spelunking and arcana), GitHub (+Actions), GitLab (+CI) - Native English, high school native French Awareness of function and place of more with which am not intimately familiar. I probably already know the right solution even if not experienced. A significant amount of experience transferable between competing products. Education - B.Eng., Software, co-op, Carleton University, 2010 - 2016 Misc - Experienced year-round cyclist, come hurricane remnant rain or blizzard, tornado or derecho only by accident, will bike up just Gatineau Park or the Alps, up to Northern Canada or just a cottage 8 hours away, on a safety, folding, or recumbent - Ontario motorcycle license, minor offroad riding experience