Simon Deziel
Software Engineer II at Canonical
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Deziel is a Linux/Unix-focused Software Engineer II with 16 years of experience building and automating large-scale infrastructure, currently at Canonical and based in Montreal. He blends deep systems and networking expertise—evident from contributions to L2TP/IPsec projects like xl2tpd and Openswan—with modern container and orchestration work on LXC/LXD and distrobuilder. Simon is a pragmatic DevOps engineer who improves tooling and security (e.g., Ansible connection plugins, apt key handling over hkps) and routinely refactors for clarity and reliability. Comfortable working remotely since 2010, he also brings hands-on packaging and distro integration experience alongside private-cluster and VPN consulting from his senior sysadmin roles.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor, Electrical Engineering at Université de Sherbrooke
English, French
Github Skills (29)
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debian10
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ipsec10
l2tp10
linux10
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c1110
networking10
security10
c1710
lxc10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
xelerance/xl2tpd
Nov 2011 - Jul 2018
Official Xelerance fork of L2TPd
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to bug fixes and enhancements related to the xl2tpd daemon's core functionality. Their work included removing unused variables, correcting variable types, and improving error handling in control socket operations. The user also integrated patches for new features such as local IP range configuration and performed version updates.
l2tpdtunnelingtuntapproxy-protocolsctp
puppetlabs/puppetlabs-apt
Oct 2018 - Mar 2022
Puppet module to help manage Apt
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 4 comments in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Simon focused on enhancing the `puppetlabs/puppetlabs-apt` module by adding support for the `hkps://` protocol for key servers. They implemented changes to the `apt_key` provider, allowing it to handle the new protocol, and updated the documentation to reflect this addition. Their contributions also involved conditional logic within acceptance tests to ensure compatibility on Ubuntu 18.04, alongside style improvements and code refinements in the testing framework.
puppet-moduleaptsupportedpuppet
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