Mikaël Ducharme
Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Data Platform
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMikaël Ducharme is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer specializing in data platforms with 11 years of experience driving observability, security, and CI/CD for complex data workflows. Based in Montreal, he has progressed from hands-on ETL and IoT pipeline work to leading reliability and platform initiatives at Mozilla, migrating and modernizing Airflow deployments and improving developer experience. He blends deep electrical engineering training with practical DevOps skills—authoring infrastructure as code, automating conditional CI for large dbt projects, and implementing column‑level masking for compliance. An active OSS contributor, Mikaël enhanced Apache Airflow’s Slack integration and Helm chart security for CeleryExecutor, demonstrating impact on a widely used project. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic systems thinker who turns messy legacy stacks into observable, secure, and scalable data platforms.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
DEC Informatique - Gestion de réseaux, DEC Informatique - Gestion de réseaux at Collège de MaisonneuveMaîtrise avec mémoire Ingénierie électrique, Maîtrise avec mémoire Ingénierie électrique at École de technologie supérieureÉchange Master 2 Ingénierie électronique analogique intégrée appliquée aux radiofréquences, Échange Master 2 Ingénierie électronique analogique intégrée appliquée aux radiofréquences at Grenoble INP - Phelma
French, English
Github Skills (18)
kubernetes10
python10
work-flow10
workflow-engine10
apache10
automation10
helm10
airflow10
kubernetes-pods10
automations10
orchestration10
orchestra10
backend10
devops10
data-engineering9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
apache/airflow
May 2020 - Sep 2023
Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 reviews, 7 PRs, 27 comments in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Mikaël contributed to the Apache Airflow project by implementing and testing a new SlackAPIFileOperator, enhancing the integration capabilities. They modified existing operator code and added tests, improving the functionality of the Slack provider. Furthermore, the user's work also included updates to the Helm chart, introducing new features and configurations related to security context and CeleryExecutor namespace.
monitorpythonschedulerapacheprogrammatically
mozilla/telemetry-airflow-dags
Apr 2023 - Apr 2025
DAGs collection for telemetry-airflow
Contributions:23 PRs, 5362 pushes, 22 branches in 1 year 11 months
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