Colan Schwartz
Founder at BackUpScale
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolColan Schwartz is a founder and seasoned technology executive with 14 years of experience building cloud-native platforms, zero-trust security systems, and enterprise-grade SaaS/PaaS/IaaS solutions. He combines hands-on architecture and DevSecOps leadership—having served as CTO, Director of Engineering, and Principal Architect—with a strong user-centered product sensibility that prioritizes rapid time-to-value. As founder of BackUpScale and founding partner of Consensus Enterprises, he focuses on client-side encryption, ransomware protection, and automated infrastructure driven by Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes and multi-cloud strategies. A long-time open-source maintainer (40+ Drupal projects and roughly 50 contributions overall), he brings practical cryptography and identity experience to production systems and mentors cryptography-focused GSOC projects. Notably, he helped launch Canada’s Buy & Sell procurement portal and repeatedly embeds security early in designs to avoid retrofitted fixes. Based in Old Toronto, he thrives in fast-moving, early-stage environments where clarity, velocity and pragmatic innovation matter.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Mathematics, Honours Co-operative Program, Computer Science, Bachelor of Mathematics, Honours Co-operative Program, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (200)
automation10
svg10
ansible-galaxy10
matrix10
hashicorp10
ansible-automation-platform10
api10
fonts10
debian-based10
open-data10
font-awesome10
svg-font10
portal10
nodejs10
terragrunt10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
colans/ansible-role-matomo
Jun 2019 - Jul 2022
Consensus Enterprises Ansible role for provisioning Matomo (mirrored from Gitlab)
Contributions:49 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 1 month
provisioningmatomoconsensusansibleenterprises
drupalprojects/hosting_services
Apr 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:98 commits in 1 year 5 months
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