David Desrosiers
Principal Support Engineer at Canonical
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Desrosiers is a Principal Support Engineer with 25+ years delivering high-performance, secure, and scalable infrastructure and data management solutions across enterprise and open source ecosystems. At Canonical he advances from DSE to Principal while shaping hiring and support leadership, mentoring engineers and building tools that bridge engineering, platform and operations. His background spans VMware, Linux/UNIX, OpenStack, MAAS, Juju and embedded/mobile environments, and he routinely moves between theoretical architecture and live operational triage. A longtime open source advocate who founded gnu-designs in 1994, he’s known for sustaining large global communities and integrating commercial and OSS tooling to solve complex business problems. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic automation (Python, Ansible, Bash, Perl) and repeatable, data-driven practices that reduce toil and accelerate delivery.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
English, English at East Hartford High SchoolGraduated English, Graduated English at Lyman Memorial High School
English, Spanish, Chinese, French
Github Skills (200)
api-platform10
qemu10
utm10
vagrant10
emulation10
palmos10
jailbreak10
thunderbird-addon10
openstack10
macos10
ios10
virtual-machine10
postman10
thunderbird9
jira9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
desrod/maas-autobuilder
Apr 2020 - Feb 2022
Simple, shell-based MAAS auto-builder script and tools
Contributions:26 commits, 3 PRs, 41 pushes in 1 year 10 months
maasshell
desrod/greenhouse
Mar 2021 - Feb 2022
Utilities for automating Greenhouse
Contributions:38 commits, 7 PRs, 31 pushes in 10 months
automationgreenhouse
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