Dylan Ferris
Tech Lead (Volunteer) at AI Governance and Safety Canada
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDylan Ferris is a seasoned Senior Software Engineer and Linux systems specialist with 13+ years of hands-on experience building and securing appliance systems, infrastructure automation, and scalable backends. He has led operations and re-engineering efforts—streamlining workstation deployments with custom Arch Linux ISOs, PXE provisioning, and Ansible orchestration—while managing high-availability ProxMox clusters and tackling low-level kernel and initramfs issues. As a volunteer Tech Lead at AI Governance and Safety Canada he built CI/CD pipelines and migrated hosting to CloudFlare Pages, blending security-minded engineering with pragmatic cloud migration. An active open-source maintainer and contributor (including test-suite work on the popular FullCalendar project), Dylan pairs kernel-level fluency with API and Python/Django experience. Based in Ottawa, he’s as comfortable patching Makefiles and writing PKGBUILD scripts as he is designing RESTful microservices, and he seeks opportunities where deep systems knowledge meets applied automation and security.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Algonquin College
English, French
Github Skills (2)
javascript10
testing10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
fullcalendar/fullcalendar
Nov 2017 - Apr 2018
Full-sized drag & drop event calendar in JavaScript
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:77 commits, 6 PRs, 1 branch in 5 months
Contributions summary:Dylan primarily contributed to the test suite, modifying existing tests and converting constructors in legacy tests. The code changes focused on improving the test coverage and maintainability of the existing testing framework, primarily through refactoring. They also removed redundant code and made small improvements to spacing and formatting within the test files. The commits suggest a focus on improving the quality and consistency of the project's tests.
fullcalendarcalendareventjavascriptdrag-and-drop
acerix/ratsynth
Jun 2016 - Mar 2025
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 11 months
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