Francis Caisse
Lead Devops Engineer at Vanilla Forums
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolFrancis Caisse is a Lead DevOps Engineer based in Montreal with a decade of experience building and operating large-scale, VM-centric infrastructure for community platforms. At Vanilla Forums he runs a private OpenStack cloud spanning four data centers and 1,500+ Linux VMs, focusing on reliability, automation, observability and aligning technical work with business priorities. His hands-on background spans full-stack development, data migrations and tooling—demonstrated by contributions to Vanilla’s addons like the Spoilers plugin and the Vanilla Porter migration tool. A former professional hockey player and team manager, he brings team-first leadership, real-world crisis management experience, and a knack for practical automation to high-availability services.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
AEC Informatique de gestion, Programmeur / Développeur, AEC Informatique de gestion, Programmeur / Développeur at Collège TeccartDEC, Administration, DEC, Administration at College de Maisonneuve
French, English
Github Skills (7)
php10
javascript10
vanilla-forums10
plugin10
jquery9
addon9
css7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
vanilla/addons
Oct 2015 - Mar 2016
Official add-ons and tools for Vanilla Forums.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 11 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Francis primarily worked on the "Spoilers" plugin, a feature for the Vanilla Forums platform. Their contributions included fixing bugs, implementing translation functionality, and improving the user interface by adding "hide" and "show" buttons. The commits involve changes to both JavaScript and PHP files, indicating a full-stack scope for the plugin's development. The user also made a small change related to another plugin called RoleTitle, but the focus was on the Spoilers plugin.
discourseadd-onsvanilla-forumsaddonsforum
vanillaforums/community
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
Code powering the Vanilla Forums open source community.
Contributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 12 pushes in 8 days
forumsvanilla-forumsvanillacommunity-forums
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