Philippe Chiasson
VP Perl at CPAN
Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilippe Chiasson is a VP-level Perl and infrastructure veteran with 23 years of experience building highly scalable, available and high-performance systems using open source foundations. He combines deep roots in Apache, mod_perl and CPAN with modern SRE and cloud-native practice, having led platform and IaC efforts at organizations like Mozilla, Kong, Teleport and Fortinet. Philippe’s hands-on work spans low-level Perl/XS and Apache integrations to large-scale Kubernetes and Kafka operations, including migrating Kafka to k8s with near-zero downtime and automating cluster upgrades end-to-end. An active open-source contributor and long-time Apache officer, he also brings observable-driven improvements to distributed systems (e.g., Consul and Mozilla Common Voice deployments). Based in Sherbrooke, Quebec, he prefers collaborative, family-like teams and seeks roles that leverage his technical leadership while still teaching him something new.
23 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
DEC, Pure Sciences, DEC, Pure Sciences at Seminaire de Sherbrooke
English, French
Github Skills (18)
testing10
http10
apache10
consul10
go10
infrastructure-as-code10
devops10
service-mesh9
dockers9
docker9
service-discovery9
api8
kibana8
aws8
grafana8
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
common-voice/common-voice
Jun 2017 - Jan 2020
Common Voice is part of Mozilla's initiative to help teach machines how real people speak.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:299 commits, 44 PRs, 193 pushes in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Philippe primarily focused on infrastructure-as-code and deployment configurations. Their commits demonstrate the setup and configuration of the voice-bundler, the creation of a NewRelic environment, and the deployment of Kibana and Grafana. They also made modifications to the Apache configuration for proxying and added configurations to skip proxying for S3 resources.
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hashicorp/consul
Nov 2015 - Jan 2016
Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Philippe primarily contributed to the backend of the Consul project, specifically focusing on improving HTTP access logging by adding client IP information and debugging query decoding issues. Their work also included merging branches and integrating changes from the master branch. Additionally, the user demonstrated expertise in testing, specifically in the context of lock monitoring and retry mechanisms. This suggests a focus on improving the reliability and observability of the Consul service.
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