Colson Driemel
Distributed Computing Developer at UVic High Energy Physics Research Computing Group
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolColson Driemel is a Distributed Computing Developer with 12 years of experience building cloud-native tooling and reliable VM orchestration for research computing. Based in Victoria, BC, he designs and implements systems that automate VM image management, dynamic cloud scheduling, and network discovery across multiple cloud providers for high-throughput scientific workloads. His background blends DevOps advocacy, Python proficiency, and hands-on operations—running Apache services, RabbitMQ, and packaging pipelines—to keep distributed environments resilient. He has applied those skills to both research projects (presenting to CANARIE and CERN) and product-facing work like a 3D iPad imaging app, showing an ability to move between low-level infrastructure and user-focused software. Colson’s pragmatic approach is informed by real-world ops experience in data centers and cloud, where he turns complex distributed requirements into maintainable automation.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at University of Victoria
English, French
Stackoverflow
21reputation
381reached
2answers
2questions
Github Skills (11)
squid10
advertising10
git6
git-remote6
django-celery6
celery6
github6
ssh6
django6
profiling4
java1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
hep-gc/shoal
May 2014 - Mar 2021
A squid cache publishing and advertising tool designed to work in fast changing environments
Contributions:8 releases, 35 reviews, 311 commits in 6 years 11 months
advertising-toolpublishingcacheadvertisingsquid
hep-gc/uvic-heprc-ansible-playbooks
Mar 2023 - Apr 2026
Repository containing public ansible playbooks
Contributions:19 reviews, 8 PRs, 23 pushes in 3 years 1 month
ansible
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.