Vincent Desjardins
Platform Engineer
Quebec, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolVincent Desjardins is a seasoned platform engineer with over 25 years in software and 16 years specializing in cloud-native infrastructure, currently building resilient platforms at Beneva in Quebec. He blends deep systems knowledge—from Linux and Kubernetes to Vault and Istio—with hands-on controller development in Go, plus infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and FluxCD. An active open-source contributor, he improved cert-manager’s Vault integration and e2e testing, strengthening TLS and secrets workflows for Kubernetes. Vincent is passionate about security, NixOS, WebAssembly, and languages like Go and Rust, and he frequently mentors teams to adopt DevOps practices. His background spans database architecture, performance tuning, and long-running production systems, giving him a pragmatic eye for reliability and operational excellence.
17 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
DEC, Informatique industriel, DEC, Informatique industriel at CEGEP Levis-Lauzon
French, English
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Github Skills (14)
mtls10
kubernetes10
certificate10
go10
tls1210
devops10
tls1310
vault10
kubernetes-pods10
libtls10
testing9
cicd8
fractions6
math6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
cert-manager/cert-manager
Mar 2018 - Oct 2018
Automatically provision and manage TLS certificates in Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:13 commits, 6 PRs, 35 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Vincent primarily contributed to the `cert-manager` project by adding and modifying end-to-end (e2e) tests to improve error messaging. They also implemented and improved the Vault issuer support, which involved setting up and configuring Vault, a secrets management system. Further contributions include fixing and enhancing the Vault integration by incorporating CA bundle support to secure TLS connections and address initialization issues.
kubernetesletsencrypttlscertificatecrd
vdesjardins/cert-manager
Feb 2018 - May 2019
Automatically provision TLS certificates for Kubernetes
Contributions:68 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 3 months
kubernetes
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