Eric Gelinas
Director Of Engineering at Docker, Inc
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolEric Gelinas is a seasoned engineering leader with decades of experience building and directing teams that deliver core cloud infrastructure, currently serving as Director of Engineering at Docker after leading LXD, Anbox and Multipass at Canonical. He combines deep expertise in scheduling, optimization and virtualization with a pragmatic focus on logistics, monitoring and reliable operations—skills grounded in an M.Sc.A. in Operations Research and a background in computer engineering. Eric has repeatedly scaled R&D organizations across product and infrastructure domains—from transport scheduling systems to cloud-native tooling—thriving on technically challenging projects that require specialized resources. Known for marrying rigorous planning with hands-on technical judgment, he excels at turning complex infrastructure problems into production-ready components that integrate into modern cloud stacks.
4 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc.A., Operations Research, M.Sc.A., Operations Research at Polytechnique Montréal
English, French
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Github Skills (19)
lxd10
criu10
virtual-machine10
lxc10
go10
private-cloud7
ceph7
internet-explorer6
javascript6
console6
filesystem5
clustering4
continuous-integration3
consensus3
snap3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
escabo/lxd
Feb 2024 - Feb 2026
Powerful system container and virtual machine manager
Contributions:76 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years
escabo/raft
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
C implementation of the Raft consensus protocol
Contributions:2 pushes in 6 days
raft-consensusconsensus-protocolconsensuspaxosdistributed-systems
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