Christopher Gervais
Founding Partner at Consensus Enterprises
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Christopher Gervais is a founding partner and seasoned DevOps engineer with 14 years building and operating Drupal-focused continuous delivery and hosting systems from Montreal. He is a core developer and project lead of the Aegir Project and has long maintained dozens of free-software modules, Drush extensions and automation tooling that power large-scale Drupal deployments. Christopher combines hands-on engineering, consulting and product strategy—founding multiple cooperatives and companies to deliver hosted infrastructure and SaaS models around Aegir. His GitHub contributions include substantive fixes and build improvements to Drush, reflecting deep involvement in tooling that developers rely on day-to-day. He pairs technical depth in backend, deployment and orchestration with experience in governance, bylaws and cooperative business planning—making him equally at home shipping code or drafting the contracts that support it.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
DEC (Dîplome d'Études Collégiales), Creative Arts, Dean's Honour List, First Class Honours, DEC (Dîplome d'Études Collégiales), Creative Arts, Dean's Honour List, First Class Honours at Dawson CollegeBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy (major) & Linguistics (minor), Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy (major) & Linguistics (minor) at McGill University
English, French
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Github Skills (7)
drupal10
php10
drush10
cli10
symfony9
symfony-ux9
phpunit7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
drush-ops/drush
Sep 2011 - May 2016
Drush is a command-line shell and scripting interface for Drupal, a veritable Swiss Army knife designed to make life easier for those who spend their working hours hacking away at the command prompt.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:87 commits, 25 PRs, 57 pushes in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Christopher contributed to the Drush project, a command-line interface for Drupal, by fixing bugs and adding features. Their work included implementing an option to exclude files and directories when searching for commandfiles, and renaming an option to avoid confusion. The user also modified the code related to generating makefiles, specifically adding defaults and fixing generation errors. These changes indicate involvement in the core functionality and build processes of the Drush tool.
prestashop-moduleshellcliscriptingsymfony-console
aegir-project/hosting
Aug 2011 - Sep 2016
Contributions:452 commits in 5 years 1 month
drupal-modulesphpdrupalaegir
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