David Hill
Principal Software Maintenance Engineer at Red Hat
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Hill is a Principal Software Maintenance Engineer with 15+ years of hands-on experience designing, automating, and hardening large-scale virtualized and cloud infrastructures. Based in Montreal, he combines deep systems expertise—VMware, OpenStack, KVM, NetBackup, Solaris/Linux—and strong troubleshooting skills as a fourth-level support engineer at Red Hat, backporting upstream OpenStack fixes and patching kernel, OVS and hypervisor issues. He has run and automated enterprise fleets (thousands of cores) at Ubisoft, built CI/CD-driven VM image pipelines with Jenkins, and created custom monitoring and log-correlation tools that reduced operational toil. An active contributor to OpenStack Horizon, he focuses on pragmatic UX and functionality improvements as well as NFV customer support, reflecting a rare blend of developer mindset and carrier-grade operations experience. Colleagues rely on him for complex incident resolution, systems analysis, and continuous improvement across virtualization, backup, and orchestration stacks.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BACC Certificat en Informatique, BACC Certificat en Informatique at UQAMDEC Technique Informatique, DEC Technique Informatique at Collège Édouard-MontpetitDEC Sciences Pures et Appliquées, DEC Sciences Pures et Appliquées at Collège ChamplainDES General, DES General at Antoine-BrossardFormation communication inter-personnelle en milieu de travail et la clientèleUniversité de Montréal
English, French
Github Skills (12)
openstack10
python10
django10
javascript8
html8
restful-api7
angularjs7
api-design7
testing7
api-rest7
rest-api7
css6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/horizon
Jun 2018 - Sep 2020
OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the OpenStack Horizon dashboard by fixing bugs, adding features, and improving the codebase. They addressed issues related to keypair creation, allowing underscores in names, and implemented functionality to set a default availability zone for VM creation. Additionally, the user modified code to get the correct timezone offset and disabled form auto-complete on the login form. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the user experience and the functionality of the Horizon dashboard.
openstack
david-hill/cloud
Jan 2016 - Dec 2022
Contributions:11333 commits, 11565 pushes, 39 branches in 7 years
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