Michael Soulier
Senior Software Developer at Mitel Corporation
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolMichael Soulier is a Senior Software Developer with over two decades of experience specializing in Unix systems programming, Linux platform engineering, and web applications. He has spent the bulk of his career at Mitel, designing and implementing the Mitel Border Gateway and web proxy while porting VoIP applications and integrating Java/Tomcat into the Mitel Standard Linux platform. Comfortable across C/C++, Perl, Python, Go and modern cloud tooling, he prioritizes portability and vendor-agnostic solutions to avoid lock-in and enable long-term flexibility. Michael has hands-on experience taking complex telecom infrastructure into Kubernetes on GCP (and onward to Azure/AWS), plus practical skills in networking, security and cryptography. He brings a pragmatic quality-first mindset shaped by early telecom work at Nortel and a track record of learning new languages and platforms when they best fit the problem. Based in Ottawa, he pairs deep systems knowledge with a preference for cost-effective, maintainable engineering.
17 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Honours, Computer Science, BSc Honours, Computer Science at McMaster UniversityBEd, Education, BEd, Education at University of Windsor
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Github Skills (133)
pure-python10
distro9
tftp9
python9
synchronize9
script9
pypi8
powerline7
bash7
luke7
window-manager7
linux7
neofetch7
tiling7
command-line7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
msoulier/tftpy
Jul 2008 - Nov 2022
Pure Python TFTP library
Contributions:1 review, 162 commits, 40 PRs in 14 years 6 months
tftppythonpure-python
msoulier/pelican_blog
Nov 2012 - Dec 2021
Contributions:102 commits, 27 pushes in 9 years 3 months
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