Mitchell Roote
Software Developer II at eSentire
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMitchell Roote is a seasoned DevOps-focused software developer with 11 years of experience designing and operating cloud-native and on-prem delivery pipelines from Toronto. He has built and maintained SaaS platforms and customer appliances, working across Python/Django backends, Postgres, Redis, and CI/CD tooling (GitLab CI, Travis), and has deep configuration management expertise with Puppet, Ansible and Terraform. Mitchell’s background spans hands-on systems administration—virtualization, datacenter ops and monitoring—to developing developer-facing tooling and automation that speed releases and improve reliability. At Security Compass he improved delivery for security-first development workflows, and more recently has driven SOC innovation and platform engineering at eSentire. He contributes practical open-source back-end work (notably managing game server tooling for Factorio) showing a knack for maintenance-heavy, utility code. Colleagues rely on him to bridge ops and engineering, turning operational complexity into repeatable, testable deployments.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Diploma Computer Systems Technology, Advanced Diploma Computer Systems Technology at George Brown College
Github Skills (9)
json10
go10
f10
http-handler10
io10
api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
api-rest9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
OpenFactorioServerManager/factorio-server-manager
Apr 2016 - Dec 2021
A tool to help manage Factorio multiplayer servers including mods and save games.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 releases, 23 reviews, 334 commits in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Mitchell primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Factorio server manager. Their work involved implementing HTTP handlers for managing mods and saves, including listing, toggling, uploading, downloading and removing them. Furthermore, the user added functionality to start and stop the server and read from the config.ini file.
multiplayerfactoriofactorio-standalone-serverfactorio-serverfactorio-installation
mroote/dotconf
Feb 2016 - Nov 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 30 pushes, 9 branches in 9 years 10 months
vimdottmuxdot-filesdotfiles
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