Paul Saumets
Staff Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure at TELUS
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Saumets is a staff cloud infrastructure engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience designing, optimizing, and migrating hybrid cloud platforms for TELUS. He specializes in serverless, DevOps/GitOps practices, and large-scale migrations across OpenShift, AWS, GCP, and Terraform, and has driven high-impact projects that improved commerce automation and platform reliability. As a technical leader and mentor, he blends architecture and people leadership—running initiatives from Mobility APIs to internal developer platform proofs-of-concept—while maintaining an open-door coaching style. His background in full-stack delivery and early adoption of containerized CI/CD stacks gives him a practical edge in moving legacy systems to modern cloud-native architectures. Paul’s approach emphasizes long-term, organic learning and pragmatic excellence, evidenced by repeated cross-platform migrations and platform modernization at enterprise scale.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Toronto
English, Estonian
Github Skills (148)
python10
testing10
ssh10
firefox10
ansible10
npm10
chrome-extension10
chrome10
javascript9
emacs-lsp9
emacs-lisp9
melpa9
chromium9
yarnpkg9
emacs9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
saumets/shopify-test-data-generator
Oct 2015 - Nov 2015
Automate generation of test/fake data (customers, orders, products etc.), which can be used for Shopify application testing.
Contributions:74 commits, 2 PRs, 73 pushes in 24 days
testingcustomersfake-datashopify
saumets/dockerized-puppeteer
Jan 2018 - Dec 2020
Example project demonstrating Headless Chrome + Puppeteer running in their own individual containers.
Contributions:11 commits, 3 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 years 11 months
containersindividualpuppeteerdockerchrome
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