Summary
Laurent Dumont is a Senior DevOps and SRE professional based in Montreal with 11 years of experience architecting and operating large-scale cloud and datacenter platforms across AWS, GCP, OpenStack and VMware. He has led cloud transformation and FinOps initiatives that cut provisioning times by 90% and saved six-figure annual costs through automation, sleep-as-a-service and compute right-sizing. Laurent combines hands-on automation (Ansible, Terraform, GitLab CI) with SRE practices to deploy hundreds of applications and zero-touch pipelines, and has built auto-healing, monitoring and topology-aggregation tools to reduce manual interventions. A perpetual learner, he’s pursuing Kubernetes and AWS certifications and a series of cybersecurity certificates from Polytechnique Montréal, while writing about operations at coldnorthadmin.com. Notably, he blends carrier-grade networking experience with cloud-native design—making him effective at migrations and hybrid infrastructure where on-prem and cloud intersect.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) - On Hold, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) - On Hold at École de technologie supérieure
DEC - Network and Systems Administration Computer Science, DEC - Network and Systems Administration Computer Science at Cégep de Rosemont
Certificate Computer Science - Cybersecurity - Cyberfraud, Certificate Computer Science - Cybersecurity - Cyberfraud at Polytechnique Montréal
DEC - Sciences Humaines - Profil Monde Humanities/Humanistic Studies, DEC - Sciences Humaines - Profil Monde Humanities/Humanistic Studies at Collège de Bois-de-Boulogne
English, French