Simon Plourde
Lead Site Reliability Engineer at Salesforce
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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RockstarSimon Plourde is a Lead Site Reliability Engineer based in Montreal with 12 years of experience building and operating large-scale, cloud-native infrastructure. He blends deep DevOps and system administration expertise with active Go development, and authoring the open-source Uchiwa dashboard for the Sensu monitoring framework demonstrates his full-stack and observability chops. At Sensu he improved CI/CD and Windows testing pipelines and added multi-user and LDAP support to Uchiwa, showing an ability to bridge backend automation, build systems, and front-end UX. Currently at Salesforce, he focuses on reliability and platform scalability, drawing on earlier roles running PaaS on Docker and Kubernetes and supporting tens of thousands of servers. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who pairs hands-on coding with strategic platform thinking.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
French, English
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Github Skills (23)
sensu10
docker10
bash10
dockers10
cicd10
go10
devops10
authentication9
ldap9
user-authentication9
configuration-management9
golang9
infrastructure9
angular8
uid8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sensu/uchiwa
May 2014 - Dec 2018
Uchiwa is a simple yet effective open-source dashboard for the Sensu monitoring framework.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 469 commits, 239 PRs in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Simon's commits focused on enhancing the Uchiwa dashboard for the Sensu monitoring framework. They modified the UI by adjusting the column sizes in the dashboard, demonstrating front-end development skills. Furthermore, the user integrated support for multi-user authentication, specifically incorporating simple authentication based on configuration file entries and the use of the LDAP server.
pagerdutyeffectivemonitoring-frameworkdashboardsensu
sensu/sensu-go
Apr 2017 - Jun 2019
Simple. Scalable. Multi-cloud monitoring.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:16 releases, 34 reviews, 176 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to the continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) process. Their work involved fixing build stages in TravisCI, modifying build scripts for Docker images, and ensuring that the testing infrastructure for Windows CI was functional. They were also responsible for improvements to the build scripts to better handle integration tests and docker image deployments.
golangscalablereactdevopsinfrastructure
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