Alan Hodgson
Senior Devops And Cloud Administrator
Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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SeniorAlan Hodgson is a seasoned DevOps and cloud administrator with over 10 years of focused experience—and decades of Linux sysadmin work—currently leading infrastructure and cloud operations at Chit Chats in Nanaimo, BC. He specializes in IaC with Terraform, Docker image engineering, managed Kubernetes (EKS) with Argo CD, and PostgreSQL performance and high-availability tuning across both self-hosted and RDS environments. Alan brings hands-on expertise in web serving and application stacks (Nginx, Apache, Varnish, Passenger for PHP/Python/Rails) combined with Puppet-driven configuration management and a practical security mindset. A long-time contributor to the phusion/passenger-docker project, he’s maintained Ruby Docker images and modernized builds to address vulnerabilities and add new language versions—showing a commitment to reliable, secure runtime environments. He also runs a long-standing consulting practice, blending enterprise-grade operations with nimble, client-facing problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (9)
ruby10
bash10
docker10
dockers10
security9
rvm9
security-scan9
updater9
debian8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
phusion/passenger-docker
Apr 2022 - Dec 2022
Docker base images for Ruby, Python, Node.js and Meteor web apps
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Ruby Developer
DevOps Engineer & Ruby DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 21 commits, 43 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Alan primarily focused on maintaining and updating the Docker images for various Ruby versions within the Phusion Passenger project. Their contributions involved upgrading Ruby versions to address security vulnerabilities, removing outdated versions, and adding support for new Ruby versions such as 3.2. They also made adjustments to the build scripts and dependencies to ensure compatibility and correct functionality of the Ruby environment within the Docker containers.
pythondocker-imagemeteornode-jsdocker
ajhodgson/passenger-docker
Apr 2022 - Mar 2025
Docker base images for Ruby, Python, Node.js and Meteor web apps
Contributions:101 pushes, 80 branches in 2 years 11 months
pythondocker-imagemeteornode-jsdocker
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