Alexandre Croteau
Senior DevSecOps Developer at Caseware
Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolAlexandre Croteau is a Senior DevSecOps Developer with four years of hands-on experience automating AppSec workflows and shifting security left across SAST, SCA and DAST pipelines. Based in Trois-Rivières, he combines application security engineering with Kubernetes and cloud-native hardening, infrastructure-as-code, and cost-optimization to improve both security posture and operational reliability. He regularly engages in penetration testing and purple-team activities to bring an attacker’s mindset to architecture and secure coding guidance. Alexandre contributes to well-known open-source tooling—work on the github/codeql-action shows his aptitude for backend automation, SARIF reporting, and test-suite improvements. He pairs a strong academic foundation in cybersecurity from Polytechnique Montréal with practical CI/CD and incident-response experience from web development roles, making him comfortable bridging developer and security teams. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, application-centric hardening that balances security, performance and cloud cost.
5 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Baccalauréat, Cybersécurité, 3.87/4.0, Baccalauréat, Cybersécurité, 3.87/4.0 at Polytechnique MontréalDEC en informatique de gestion, Informatique, DEC en informatique de gestion, Informatique at Cégep de Drummondville
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Github Skills (16)
github-ci10
javascript10
githubaction-workflow10
act10
codeql10
typescript-types9
cil9
typescript9
typescripts9
semmle-ql8
testing7
nodejs6
dictionary6
phpmyadmin6
backend6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
github/codeql-action
Jan 2022 - Feb 2022
Actions for running CodeQL analysis
Role in this project:
Back-end & Automation Engineer
Back-end & Automation EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 13 commits, 2 PRs in 8 days
Contributions summary:Alexandre made several contributions related to the implementation of features and enhancements within the CodeQL action framework. This included adding inputs and outputs for features such as SARIF reporting, and refactoring to improve code robustness by adding checks for inputs and compiling files. They also contributed to the test suite, and optimized for efficiency within the existing code.
codeqlsemmle-qlcode-scanningadvanced-securityci
caseware/runs-on-cache
Oct 2025 - Jul 2026
Shockingly faster GitHub Action cache with S3 backend
Contributions:1 PR, 39 pushes, 3 branches in 9 months
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