Alexis Vanier
Product Engineer at AdGear
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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RockstarAlexis Vanier is a Product Engineer based in Ottawa with nine years delivering back-end, DevOps, and SRE-focused solutions. A pragmatic “product person” who calls themself an Agile Plumber, Alexis blends hands-on systems work with product sensibility—shipping secure, reliable tooling that teams actually use. Notably, they’ve contributed to Concourse CI’s fly CLI in Go, adding client-certificate transport and improving authentication and target management for a widely used open-source CI system. Comfortable across infrastructure, automation, and developer tooling, Alexis excels at turning operational pain points into robust, test-backed features. Their profile signals a doer who prefers solving the messy gaps between product intent and production reality.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (13)
mtls10
authentication10
user-authentication10
go10
tls1210
continuous-delivery10
continuous-integration10
tls1310
cicd10
libtls10
concourse10
dockers7
docker7
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
concourse/concourse
Apr 2018 - Sep 2020
Concourse is a container-based continuous thing-doer written in Go.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 8 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Alexis focused on enhancing the `fly` command-line tool, primarily addressing features related to secure communication and authentication within the Concourse CI/CD system. Their contributions included enabling the use of client certificates for secure transport and updating associated tests. The changes also extended to updating the fly command to support new configuration options and integrating these options with the authentication process. Additionally, there were code modifications in the target management which improved how targets are loaded and authenticated.
golangcontainersdoergocdelm
adgear/hugo-theme-learn
Aug 2019 - Nov 2022
Porting Grav Learn theme to Hugo
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 4 months
portinggravhugohugo-themeteam-ep
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