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Simon Beaulieu

Simon Beaulieu

Senior DevX Engineer

Montreal, Quebec, CA
+1438-391-6940
French, English

Background


Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Senior Software Engineer, Developer ExperiencePleo

    Jun, 2023 - Jan, 20262 years 7 months

    Led enterprise developer experience initiatives including service catalog migration, microservice infrastructure automation and rollout of AI tooling across the engineering organization.

    • Created onboarding content (written/video guides) and participated in backend/tooling systems design interviews.

    • Resolved technical challenges in Gradle, Kubernetes, API standards, and GitHub Actions through rotation support.

    • Coached platform teams (Mobile, Frontend, Security) on engineering standards via scorecards and vendor coordination.

    • Led SaaS tool migration for internal developer platform (OpsLevel -> Port.io) with infrastructure refactoring, stakeholder communication, and minimal-downtime transitions.

    • Enabled AI tooling with AWS Bedrock, automating inference profiles and Claude Code configuration for 200+ engineers.

  • Senior Software Engineer in TestPleo

    Jun, 2022 - Jun, 20231 year

    • Play a key role in a special project to measure DORA metrics for the engineering organisation

    • Maintain and improve a custom ETL platform to collect and analyze data supporting quality metrics across the organization

    • Revamp the bug triaging & prioritizing process involving customer support & engineering teams by measuring key metrics against SLAs

    • Create automation solutions to improve test efficiency

  • Test EngineerPleo

    Jan, 2020 - Jul, 20222 years 6 months

    Championed quality practices through DORA metrics implementation, bug triage process improvements, and team coaching on testing tooling.

    • Revamped bug triage process with SLA metrics for customer support and engineering teams

    • Coached teams on quality improvements with better tooling and build pipelines

    • Built custom ETL tool to collect metrics from Github, mobile stats, and project management tools

    • Developed quality automation tooling

  • Software Engineer In Test IIPremiumBeat (a Shutterstock Company)

    Apr, 2019 - Dec, 20198 months

    Led testing framework analysis and CI/CD optimization while participating in company-wide quality initiatives and SoX compliance audits.

    • Refactored reporting tool to track test trends (pass/fail rates, test changes)

    • Analyzed E2E frameworks, proposed solutions, and implemented POCs for new test projects

    • Improved code quality through better tooling and practices company-wide

    • Provided technical advice during SoX audits

    • Optimized and maintained Jenkins build pipelines

    • Conducted interviews and onboarded new team members

  • Software Engineer in Test IPremiumBeat (a Shutterstock Company)

    Sep, 2017 - Apr, 20191 year 7 months

    Supported quality compliance for large-scale applications and maintained testing frameworks including Cypress, TestCafe, Puppeteer, and Selenium.

    • Advised teams on Sarbanes-Oxley compliance

    • Supported quality and compliance for large-scale web applications

    • Maintained and developed testing frameworks (Cypress, TestCafe, Puppeteer, Selenium, Jest, Mocha)

    • Proposed and implemented test automation improvements

    • Migrated and maintained CI/CD processes (Jenkins, Docker)

  • Specialist, TechnologyBell

    May, 2016 - Aug, 20171 year 3 months

    Implemented infrastructure automation using Ansible and Docker while managing Linux servers and supporting software development projects.

    • Automated VM configuration with Ansible for Java/Node, Eclipse, Maven and Git

    • Managed RHEL 7 servers and performed Linux administration

    • Built and deployed applications using Docker and Docker-compose

    • Evaluated and recommended DevOps/software development solutions

    • Developed Java projects with Spring Boot, JHipster and Docker

    • Tested Linux container technologies and proposed solutions

  • IT Technical ArchitectBell

    Jan, 2015 - Apr, 20153 months

    Designed cloud architectures using OpenStack and developed automation solutions for enterprise infrastructure deployment.

    • Advised senior architects on OpenStack Neutron

    • Built POC web app for remote virtual firewall deployment

    • Developed Python/HTML/Twitter Bootstrap solutions for VMware ESXi VM automation

  • Intern Java DeveloperExpertus Technologies

    Apr, 2013 - Aug, 20141 year 4 months

    Developed software applications using J2EE and Struts while automating build processes with Maven and Jenkins.

    • Owned the application build process and implemented improvements to streamline workflows

    • Fixed legacy application issues and supported QA/support teams through testing and deployment phases

    • Developed software applications using J2EE, Struts, and Vaadin frameworks

    • Set up and configured Jenkins build server to automate Maven and Bash-based builds

  • Developer / Q&A (Internship)APISOFT Technovision Corporation

    Jan, 2012 - Apr, 20123 months

    Contributed to engineering excellence through technical initiatives, automation, and team collaboration.

    • Participated in the development of a database module for an alert management software solution

    • Tested existing code and fixed errors

    • Implemented file-based database management with Java

    • Performed unit testing in Java with JUnit

  • Computer TechnicianIBM Canada Ltd.

    May, 2010 - Aug, 20111 year 3 months

    Provided level 1-2 technical support, deployed system updates, and managed antivirus configurations across production environments.

    • Deployed Windows XP Service Pack 3 manually on 700+ computers across a production line

    • Programmed scripts to extract firewall rules from existing configuration files for migration to newer versions

    • Provided level 1-2 technical support for production environments

    • Deployed and managed Symantec Anti-virus on Windows XP systems

    • Configured Symantec Endpoint Protection firewall rules

    • Performed initial configuration on new computers and replaced faulty hardware components

Projects Experience

Projects Experience

  • Over-engineering my CV

    Jan, 2026 - Present

    Using AI tooling and JsonResume to make things a little more challenging while updating my CV

  • Infrastructure of my home lab

    Jan, 2022 - Present

    Reference for the configuration of my local servers and workstations

  • Multi-purpose CLI

    Jan, 2025 - Present

    Exploration of the GO language and development of CLI for various personal uses

Skills

Skills

  • Programming Languages

    Typescript

    Kotlin

    Golang

    Bash

  • DevOps & Cloud

    AWS

    AWS Bedrock

    Ansible

    Docker & Docker-compose

    Terraform

    Kubernetes

  • CI/CD & Automation

    Concourse CI

    GitHub Actions

    Jenkins

  • Testing

    Cypress

    JUnit

    Jest

    Mocha

    Puppeteer

    Selenium

    TestCafe

  • Databases

    SqLite

    PostgreSQL

  • Tools & Platforms

    Claude Code

    Github Copilot

    LiteLLM

    Port.io

    OpsLevel

    Swarmia

    DX

Education

Education

  • IT Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Université du Québec - Ecole de Technologie supérieure

    Jan, 2011 - Jan, 2016

  • Computer Science, Technical degree, Cégep de Granby Haute-Yamaska

    Jan, 2008 - Jan, 2011

Interests

Interests

  • Woodworking

  • Sharpening

  • Dust collection and air quality

  • Hand tools