Pier-luc Gagnon
Senior Platform Developer
Quebec, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolPier-luc Gagnon is a senior platform developer with 15 years of hands-on experience designing and operating cloud-native infrastructure for gaming and space-tech products. He specializes in Kubernetes, Golang, Node.js, Terraform and CI/CD tooling (GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Helm) to deliver resilient microservice architectures across cloud and on-prem clusters. Pier-luc has built real-time, high-scale systems—ranging from multiplayer game backends to a Space Situational Awareness image processing pipeline—emphasizing observability with Grafana, Prometheus, Loki and OpenTelemetry. He combines a developer-first mindset with infrastructure as code and automation to accelerate delivery while reducing operational costs. Known for mentoring teams and improving processes, he blends product-driven thinking with low-level engineering pragmatism. Based in Quebec, he brings a rare mix of gaming passion and space systems experience to platform engineering challenges.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MITxBachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at McGill UniversityCollegial Pure and Applied Sciences, Collegial Pure and Applied Sciences at CEGEP Édouard-MontpetitCollegial Pure and Applied Sciences, Collegial Pure and Applied Sciences at Champlain College St-LambertHigh school diploma, High school diploma at La Magdeleine
French, English
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Github Skills (200)
proxy10
chat10
visual-studio10
k8s10
api10
webrtc10
filesystem10
vip10
amazon-s310
nodemailer10
rest-api10
collaboration10
data-protection10
editor10
kubernetes10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
Nepoxx/home-infra
Jun 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:4 PRs, 112 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 7 months
Nepoxx/openpilot
Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
sunnypilot is a fork of comma.ai's openpilot. sunnypilot offers the user a unique driving experience for Hyundai / Kia / Genesis, Honda, Subaru, Toyota, and Volkswagen (MQB) vehicles with modified behaviors of driving assist engagements. sunnypilot complies with comma.ai's safety rules as accurately as possible.
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
behaviorstoyotaopenpilotgenesisassist
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