Vincent Boulos
Principal Automation Engineer
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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RockstarVincent Boulos is a Principal Automation Engineer based in Ottawa with four years in focused automation and a long history (over a decade) of building reliable enterprise systems across finance and telecom. At Red Hat he automates CI/CD and release tooling for OpenShift, contributing to high-profile repositories that drive image promotion and Prow-based pipelines. His background spans hands-on test automation, API/backend testing, and leading systems integration efforts, reflecting a blend of developer, test, and architecture skills. Vincent has led teams and reviewed code, while also designing authentication, fraud monitoring, and core banking integrations earlier in his career. Colleagues rely on him for stabilizing complex release pipelines and translating operational issues into configuration and job-level fixes. He pairs pragmatic engineering with institutional knowledge of secure, production-grade systems.
4 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
English, French, Arabic
Github Skills (13)
kubernetes10
automation10
automations10
docker10
openshift10
proc10
dockers10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml9
bash9
release-management9
infrastructure-as-code8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/release
Feb 2023 - Apr 2025
Release tooling for OpenShift
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:29 reviews, 39 PRs, 345 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Vincent primarily contributed to the OpenShift release tooling, focusing on automating and configuring CI/CD pipelines for promoting various images (ALC, GRC, OBS) within the OpenShift ecosystem. Their work involved creating and modifying Prow job configurations, step registries, and OWNERS files to facilitate the automated build, testing, and deployment processes. They also addressed build failures by commenting out certain lines and modifying configurations, highlighting their role in maintaining the stability and efficiency of the release pipeline.
continuous-deploymentkubernetesopenshifttooling
vboulos/release
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
Release tooling for OpenShift
Contributions:525 pushes, 34 branches in 2 years
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