Summary
Hans Deragon is an experienced architect-adviser, data engineer and DevOps specialist with 18+ years delivering production-critical systems for enterprises like CDPQ, Desjardins, Vidéotron and Yellow Pages. He blends hands-on development (Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, Node.js) with Big Data and cloud tooling—Spark, Hadoop ecosystem, Nifi, HBase, Hive, S3—and a strong Unix/Linux operations background. Comfortable across the stack, he has led turnkey projects from architecture to deployment, estimating ROI and coordinating multi-team rollouts with 24/7 production support experience. An open-source advocate and DbUnit committer, he also publishes practical tools such as Autopoweroff and gives talks on free software. Fluent in French and based in Montreal, he favors automation and simplification to reduce operational toil while enabling scalable data platforms.
18 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Baccalauréat, Génie Informatique, Baccalauréat, Génie Informatique at École Polytechnique de Montréal
French, English, German