Summary
Gabriel Cossette is a Senior Linux Systems Administrator with 11+ years designing and operating resilient open source infrastructure for public sector and private clients. He combines hands-on expertise managing hundreds of Linux servers, databases (PostgreSQL/PostGIS, MariaDB/MySQL), web stacks (NGINX, Apache, php-fpm) and container platforms (Docker, CapRover, Docker Swarm) with proven DevOps tooling (Ansible, Jenkins, CheckMK). Gabriel has driven cloud-native and automation initiatives across government agencies, leading pilots that applied AI to legal workflows and shaping enterprise open source strategy and governance. He regularly integrates geospatial and specialist services (MapServer, GDAL, Nominatim) and has a track record of improving delivery through CI/CD, virtualization tuning and secure remote access. Based in Calgary, he pairs a genuine open source passion with pragmatic advice to stakeholders, moving projects from proof-of-concept to production. Notably, he blends deep operations experience with strategic IT policy work, so he can both build systems and influence how organizations adopt them.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
College degree Information Technologies (management), College degree Information Technologies (management) at Cégep de Matane
French, English