Summary
Pierre Belanger is a seasoned DevOps engineer with over a decade focused on security, stability, data integrity and performance across large-scale UNIX environments. Based in Saratoga, CA, he combines deep kernel and OS expertise with pragmatic automation—authoring reusable tools and server image configurations to cut infrastructure costs and improve reliability. His career spans startups through major acquisitions (Xobni → Yahoo → Verizon) and long-term roles at Rogers and Nokia engagements, giving him rare experience in migrations, high-availability design and vendor-facing troubleshooting. Pierre writes clean, testable automation in Bash, Puppet, Python/Perl and has led continuous deployment and cluster management efforts for critical services. He’s as comfortable debugging kernel-level issues as he is designing operational architecture, and is known for rooting out subtle stability problems while scouting and adopting better technologies.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
École Polytechnique
Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
English, French