Hugo Ares
Principal Software Engineer, Hybrid Cloud at Red Hat
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolHugo Ares is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building and troubleshooting large-scale, cloud-native systems, currently driving Hybrid Cloud initiatives at Red Hat from Montreal. He combines strong hands-on skills in profiling and performance tuning with a pragmatic commitment to clean code and TDD/BDD practices. Previously he led DevOps and engineering efforts at Kaloom and contributed to backend systems at Ericsson and CAE, bringing both leadership and deep technical execution. An active open-source contributor, Hugo has improved widely used Docker and Jenkins ecosystems—fixing flaky tests, resolving symlink and serialization bugs, and upgrading dependencies to strengthen build reliability. He is comfortable spanning development, test automation, and build tooling, and has a knack for surfacing subtle infrastructure issues before they reach production. Trained in software engineering at ÉTS, he pairs methodical problem solving with practical DevOps experience to ship robust systems.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Techniques de l'informatique, Techniques de l'informatique at Cégep André-LaurendeauBachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Université du Québec - Ecole de Technologie supérieure
Github Skills (22)
docker10
testing10
gerrit10
dockers10
java10
cicd10
javas10
automation10
junit10
jtest10
jenkins10
automations10
jenkins-ci10
gradlew10
gradle10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jenkinsci/gerrit-trigger-plugin
Sep 2013 - Aug 2018
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:22 commits, 5 PRs, 8 comments in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Hugo primarily contributed to the Jenkins Gerrit Trigger plugin, focusing on test improvements, build automation, and event handling. They fixed test execution order dependencies and improved the naming of threads within the Gerrit send command queue. The user also refactored the plugin by moving classes and interfaces related to event lifecycle and event handling, and implemented features to block builds until replication is completed.
docker-java/docker-java
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
Java Docker API Client
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:11 commits, 12 PRs, 29 comments in 10 days
Contributions summary:Hugo primarily contributed to improving the `docker-java/docker-java` library. They focused on refactoring and removing deprecated code, specifically related to `MoreObjects.toStringHelper`. Significant effort was spent on enhancing testing, incorporating JUnit rules for temporary files and fixing existing unit tests, which revealed bugs with symbolic links. Additionally, the user addressed serialization issues by fixing the `serialVersionUID` type in various model classes.
api-clientapidocker-javaclient-librarydocker
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