David Delisle
Senior CI CD & DevOps Support Engineer at TELUS
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Delisle is a Senior CI/CD and DevOps Support Engineer with two decades of Linux/UNIX administration experience and RHCE certification, now focused on CI/CD and cloud deployment tooling. He moved from hands-on systems roles into software development at Red Hat, contributing to OpenStack deployment tooling and enhancing the widely used sosreport project with OpenStack-specific plugins and improved container log collection. Known for digging into complex problems to prevent outages, he combines fast learning with a discipline for clear, external documentation and process optimization. At TELUS he applies that blend of deep systems knowledge and developer-facing tooling to streamline delivery and support large-scale deployments. Based in Montreal, he brings both the longevity of seasoned operations expertise and recent software engineering practice, making him particularly effective at bridging support, CI/CD, and platform development. An under-the-radar strength is his attention to capturing actionable diagnostics—improving observability for teams troubleshooting production issues.
8 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
AEC, AEC at College Delta
English, French
Github Skills (8)
openstack10
python9
system-administration8
dockers7
docker7
ansible-galaxy6
ansible6
cicd6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
sosreport/sos
Oct 2018 - Sep 2020
A unified tool for collecting system logs and other debug information
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & OpenStack Specialist
DevOps Engineer & OpenStack SpecialistContributions:8 reviews, 5 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to enhancing the `sosreport/sos` repository's ability to collect system information relevant to OpenStack deployments. Their work included adding new plugins for OpenStack services like NovaJoin, Instack and Ironic, and extending existing ones, such as OpenVSwitch, including support for the 6wind platform. Additionally, the user addressed issues and made improvements to log collection and configuration gathering within containers, improving the tool's effectiveness for troubleshooting.
loggingcollectingdebugsystem-logslogs
valleedelisle/ess-tools
Jul 2019 - Feb 2020
Notifier based on Red Hat internal case API
Contributions:70 PRs, 163 pushes, 76 branches in 7 months
apiinternalred-hathatnotifier
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