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