Christopher Larivière

SRE | DevOps | Cloud Infrastructure

Montréal, Canada

Skills

Frameworks/Tools

Kubernetes, Docker, Serverless, Terraform, IntelliJ, AWS, GCP

Languages/SDKs

Go | Containers | Helm | CI/CD | Python | Java | C++ | NodeJS | C# | SQL | Qt

Competencies

Site Reliability, DevOps, Security, Distributed Systems, English, French – All professional proficiency or above

Experience

Senior DevOps Engineer

PSL Group Inc.

March 2023 - Present

  • Migrated CI/CD pipelines from AWS CodePipeline to GitHub Actions, eliminating 80 hours/month of manual DevOps toil and increasing annual deployments by 47% (937 → 1,382 year-over-year). GitHub Actions, Python, Go
  • Led end-to-end migration of legacy applications from EC2/ECS to EKS using multi-stage Docker builds, enabling zero-downtime deployments and reducing socket error rate from >8% to <2%. Kubernetes, Docker, Helm
  • Architected a centralized Terraform IaC repository with reusable modules and Atlantis-based governance, standardizing infrastructure provisioning across DevOps and InfraOps teams and improving AWS access security. Terraform, Atlantis, AWS
  • Designed a modular Helm-based GitOps repository enabling application teams to deploy to EKS independently without writing Kubernetes manifests, saving ~30 hours/month of DevOps involvement. ArgoCD, Helm, Kubernetes
  • Collaborated with the security team to embed Kubernetes security standards as automated guardrails directly into CI/CD pipelines across all EKS clusters. Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD

SRE Developer

Stingray Inc.

September 2021 - March 2023

  • Built Go tools and microservices improving developer workflows, deployed on Kubernetes. Go, NodeJS, Kubernetes
  • Managed Kubernetes workloads with Helm following Terraform IaC best practices. Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform
  • Migrated production databases with AWS DMS, improving reliability and reducing manual ops. AWS DMS
  • Maintained on-call rotation for production microservices and platform stability. AWS, Kubernetes

Software Developer

Stingray Inc.

April 2019 - August 2021

  • Built distributed microservices including Karaoke-API in Java, NodeJS and .Net Core. Java, NodeJS, .Net Core
  • Deployed services to Kubernetes with Helm and integrated AWS and GCP cloud services. Kubernetes, AWS, GCP

Software Developer

Kinova Robotics Inc.

June 2017 - April 2019

  • Developed real-time, multi-threaded robotic software features in C++ and Python. C++, Python
  • Set up CI/CD pipelines using Bamboo and led cross-compilation initiatives across products. CI/CD, CMake
  • Built Qt-based desktop tools for internal tooling and product prototypes. C++, Qt

Education

B.Eng., Software Engineering

École de technologie supérieure

Montréal, Canada

2012 - Winter 2015

Projects

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) - Kubernetes

2026

Added Github Ingress-Nginx CORS Wildcard feature and understood Go library interoperability with Kubernetes

2022

Configured and maintained a multi-node Kubernetes cluster while maintaining the network firewall and switches (Ubiquiti)

2020 - Present

Certifications