Paul Belanger
Staff System Engineer at Dragos, Inc.
Sarnia, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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RockstarPaul Belanger is a Staff System Engineer with 16 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining open infrastructure, currently focused on systems and security at Dragos and teaching infrastructure security as an Associate Professor. He brings deep expertise in CI/CD, image and build tooling, and network automation from leadership roles at Ansible/Red Hat and long-term stewardship of OpenStack CI and Zuul. A prolific open-source contributor, Paul has improved core telephony (Asterisk), Ansible tooling, and OpenStack infrastructure—work that spans backend, DevOps, and system architecture. He’s known for pragmatic improvements to testing and build pipelines (multi-stage Docker builds, tox and dependency upgrades, image format support) that reduce friction across large-scale projects. Based in Sarnia, Ontario, he combines production-grade engineering with academic perspective, making him adept at translating complex infrastructure needs into reliable, testable systems.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (51)
network-configuration10
fedora10
puppeteer10
docker10
asterisk10
python10
puppet10
scripting10
debian10
image10
testing10
bash10
c1110
acceptance-testing10
dockers10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/ansible-runner
Apr 2019 - Sep 2021
A tool and python library that helps when interfacing with Ansible directly or as part of another system whether that be through a container image interface, as a standalone tool, or as a Python module that can be imported. The goal is to provide a stable and consistent interface abstraction to Ansible.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:25 reviews, 66 commits, 141 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Paul's contributions focus on improving the build and testing infrastructure for the Ansible Runner project. They upgraded dependencies like tox and adjusted the build process to prepare for testing on CentOS 8. Further work involved updating the project to use multi-stage builds with `ansible/python-builder`, simplifying the Dockerfile and removing compile time dependencies. These changes demonstrate an effort to improve the build, test, and deployment processes.
python-librarypythongoalansibledocker
openstack/diskimage-builder
Nov 2015 - Aug 2020
Image building tools for OpenStack. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & System Architect
DevOps Engineer & System ArchitectContributions:33 commits in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Paul's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the diskimage-builder's functionality and maintainability. They introduced support for new output image formats like tgz, improved testing coverage, and updated the project to support newer Fedora and Ubuntu releases. Furthermore, the user made architectural changes such as refactoring the way ssh host keys are handled, reflecting a focus on system-level configuration and CI system compatibility.
opendevopenstack
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