Roch D'amour
Sr. Site Reliability Engineering Developer at Civalgo
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRoch D'amour is a Sr. Site Reliability Engineering Developer based in Montreal with nine years of experience building and operating cloud-native, distributed systems and CI/CD platforms. He blends hands-on DevOps and SRE practice with platform engineering, having delivered reliability and automation work across Civalgo, Stingray, and consultant roles at Arctiq. Roch contributes to open source—most notably backend improvements and performance-focused refactors to the self-hosted Wakapi project—demonstrating practical skill in backend routing, caching, and data handling. Colleagues know him for pragmatic problem-solving that balances security automation and developer productivity. He favors clean, credible engineering over needless solemnity, and his GitHub reflects a focus on useful, production-ready tooling.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Baccalauréat, Génie Logiciel, Baccalauréat, Génie Logiciel at École de technologie supérieureCégep de Granby
French, English
Github Skills (12)
go10
web-development10
web-application10
webapp10
database-design9
caching9
api8
apidoc8
self-hosting6
time-tracking6
developer-tools6
activity-tracker6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
muety/wakapi
Oct 2020 - Feb 2022
📊 A minimalist, self-hosted WakaTime-compatible backend for coding statistics
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 11 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Roch primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Wakapi project. Their work focused on implementing custom rule support for language detection, including the addition of new routes and database interactions. They also made updates to settings pages and fixed CSS issues. Furthermore, the user refactored the code by introducing caching for custom rules, thereby improving performance.
wakatime-apigolangstatisticsproductivityminimalist
notarock/stumpwm-config
May 2019 - Oct 2022
Contributions:33 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
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