Jeff Wilson
DevOps Engineer at Portfolio
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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SeniorJeff Wilson is a DevOps Engineer based in Ottawa with 11 years of experience building tools and infrastructure that reduce operational obscurity and make systems more observable and reliable. Currently leading DevOps efforts at Portfolio since 2021, he previously shaped software architecture at Telepin and has a strong academic foundation from Carleton University including a master's. He blends hands-on engineering with architectural thinking, having moved from senior developer and director roles into focused platform and automation work. Colleagues would describe him as pragmatic and quietly persistent—he likens his approach to a wind-up flashlight that reliably brings light to dark corners. Comfortable across the full lifecycle, he prioritizes tooling that surfaces risk and empowers teams to act. His background spanning research, product, and leadership roles gives him a rare mix of curiosity and delivery discipline.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
English, French
Github Skills (1)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rjpw/skelton
May 2015 - May 2021
Skeleton for experiments with a Node-RED UI (with apologies to fans of the late great Red Skelton)
Contributions:2 PRs, 53 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years
node-red-uinode-redskeletonlatedocker
rjpw/optaplanner
Apr 2018 - Oct 2020
Java Constraint Solver to solve vehicle routing, employee rostering and other planning problems.
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
solvecrosswordrosteringproblemssolver
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