Romain Dauby
Senior Engineer at Shopify
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRomain Dauby is a Senior Engineer and technical leader with 12 years of experience designing and scaling large distributed systems, currently driving platform reliability and developer productivity at Shopify from Montreal. He has led SRE and DevOps transformations at Ubisoft and Cdiscount, building internal platforms, observability stacks and one-click deployment pipelines that serve hundreds of teams and thousands of services. Romain blends hands-on infrastructure and backend work—contributing to open-source projects like the Crossplane AWS provider and Kubernetes CKA exercises—with a strategic focus on DevSecOps, FinOps and measurable business outcomes. Known for empowering teams through clear communication and shared ownership, he champions high alignment and loose coupling across global, cross-functional organizations. Outside engineering he applies the discipline of a former cycling coach to endurance sports like swimming, running and hiking, a detail that informs his methodical approach to long-term platform health.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree - IT and information system expert Information systems, Master’s Degree - IT and information system expert Information systems at EPSI BordeauxPCEM1 Medicine, PCEM1 Medicine at Université de BordeauxHigh school diploma in Sciences Mathematics specialty, High school diploma in Sciences Mathematics specialty at Lycée Saint Joseph de Tivoli
English, French
Github Skills (16)
kubernetes10
docker10
go10
prometheus10
aws10
crossplane10
dockers10
kubernetes-pods10
trainings9
cloud-infrastructure9
infrastructure-as-code9
infrastructure9
certification9
bash8
yaml8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
bmuschko/cka-crash-course
Mar 2022 - Jun 2022
In-depth and hands-on practice for acing the exam.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 9 commits, 2 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Romain's contributions primarily focused on configuring and maintaining Kubernetes infrastructure within the context of a CKA certification course. They modified scripts to manage control plane and worker node setup, ensuring proper IP configurations. The user updated Calico manifests and introduced network policy exercises, demonstrating practical knowledge of Kubernetes networking and deployment. These changes are aimed at enabling hands-on learning and practice related to Kubernetes administration and certification.
cosignhands-onhandsdepthtraining
crossplane-contrib/provider-aws
Jul 2022 - Sep 2022
Crossplane AWS Provider
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 7 commits, 6 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Romain's contributions focused on extending the AWS provider for Crossplane. They added new features like managing Prometheus rule groups namespaces and alertmanager definitions within the AWS environment. Furthermore, they performed code refactoring and improvements, including lowercasing variables and using WorkspaceIdRef for better code readability. The user also implemented updates in the rulegroupsnamespace setup.
providerterraformawsterraform-modulecrossplane
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