Mitch Cail
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Gadget
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMitch Cail is a Senior Infrastructure Engineer based in Ottawa with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure for observability and network-edge platforms. He has driven backend and DevOps work at Datadog and Momentive.ai and now leads infrastructure efforts at Gadget, blending software engineering rigor with production-grade reliability. Mitch contributes to notable open-source projects like Netflix's Lemur—adding certificate expiration metrics that improve operational visibility—demonstrating attention to both tooling and telemetry. A Carleton-trained software engineer, he pairs hands-on coding with systems thinking to turn complex distributed requirements into measurable, automated solutions.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Software Engineering at Carleton University
Github Skills (9)
mtls10
ssl10
tls1210
aws10
python10
tls1310
libtls10
security10
celery9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Netflix/lemur
Jun 2022 - Jun 2022
Repository for the Lemur Certificate Manager
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 11 commits, 7 PRs in 23 days
Contributions summary:Mitch contributed to the implementation of certificate expiration metrics within the Lemur Certificate Manager. This involved modifications to the `certificates/service.py`, `certificates/cli.py`, and `common/celery.py` files to emit metrics related to certificate expiry. The changes included updating queries to retrieve eligible certificates and modifying the celery task to publish the metrics. The user also made minor code formatting and linting fixes throughout the project.
pythonsslssl-certificatessecuritytls
mitchcail/meal-generator
Feb 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:14 PRs, 82 pushes, 15 branches in 1 year 1 month
generatormeal
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