Andrew Gillis
Developer at zapwerx.com
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolAndrew Gillis is a developer with 11 years of hands-on experience building resilient web and cloud systems from Montreal. He specializes in AWS infrastructure and DevOps, with deep practical knowledge of IAM, Cognito, SAML federation, OIDC and OAuth2, and a track record of delivering customer-facing identity solutions. Andrew has led migrations, reduced downtime through blue-green deployments and backups, and introduced IaC and CI/CD practices that improved reliability and cut operational costs. He also tackled ecommerce performance, security hardening (CSPs and bot protections), and cleared long-standing technical backlogs to restore site stability. Before focusing full-time on cloud engineering he managed operations and training as a head sailing instructor, a background that explains his emphasis on safety, process, and team enablement.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Biology, General, Biology, General at Concordia University
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Github Skills (63)
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typescript10
time-management10
cloud-infrastructure10
nextjs10
cloud-development-kit10
go10
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github-api10
golang10
attestation10
infrastructure-as-code10
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
gillisandrew/voodooshipping.net
Jan 2016 - Jun 2020
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
gillisandrew/pomatez
Feb 2022 - Jun 2024
Stay Focused. Take a Break.
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 4 months
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