Alexandre Gervais
Co-Founder at Polar Sky
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolAlexandre Gervais is a Montreal-based technology leader and co-founder with 13 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure, developer tooling, and secure platforms. He has progressed from hands-on engineering to strategic leadership—shaping architecture, DevOps excellence, and operational practices at companies like Ambassador Labs and Kong while founding Polar Sky to focus on secure foundations for enterprise AI. A prolific contributor to CNCF projects, he’s worked on Telepresence and Emissary-ingress, improving crash reporting and cluster detection to streamline local development against remote Kubernetes clusters. Alexandre pairs pragmatic engineering (Go, Python, Kubernetes, GitOps) with a product-minded approach to delivery and team enablement, and has a background in entrepreneurship from HEC Montréal that informs his ability to turn technical roadmaps into business outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.Ing. Software Engineering, B.Ing. Software Engineering at École de technologie supérieureDEC Computer science, DEC Computer science at Cegep Andre-LaurendeauEntrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at HEC Montréal
French, English
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Github Skills (18)
error-reporting10
kubernetes10
docker10
dockers10
kubernetes-pods10
github-ci9
command-line-interface9
cicd9
command-line9
go9
cli9
githubaction-workflow9
tunnel8
apidoc8
api8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
telepresenceio/telepresence
Oct 2019 - Aug 2022
Local development against a remote Kubernetes or OpenShift cluster
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 74 commits, 8 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Alexandre made several contributions related to the installation and configuration of the Telepresence tool. They added functionality to generate crash reports, including gathering logs and cluster information, and improved the crash reporting process. The user also addressed issues related to domain name registration and preview URLs. Additionally, the user made changes to improve the accuracy of cluster information detection.
local-developmentproxyvpndockeropenshift
datawire/status
Jun 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:4 PRs, 6 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 3 months
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