>_Joshua Ghali
About me
I’m Josh. I specialize in cloud computing and Kubernetes, with extensive experience across various enterprises. Currently, I’m innovating at Intact Insurance, where I enhance developer experience through the creation of an Internal Developer Platform and cutting-edge solutions with Jenkins CI and Helm.
Skills
Experience
DevOps Principal, Developer Experience COE
Intact Insurance|Currently working since December 2023
At Intact, our Developer Experience COE team enhances software lifecycles by leveraging Jenkins, OpenShift, Infrastructure as Code, and GitOps principles. We focus on improving the developer experience through solutions like an Internal Developer Platform to centralize project resources and opinionated pipelines with Jenkins and Python, streamlining workflows and easing developer challenges.
DevOps Specialist
mdf Commerce|July 2023 - December 2023
Maintained Azure DevOps using PowerShell for projects involving outdated technologies.
DevOps Consultant
Croesus|January 2023 - June 2023
Maintained Azure DevOps using PowerShell for projects involving outdated technologies.
Platform engineering Consultant
Fairstone Bank|September 2022 - January 2023
Development of React library for AWS Appconfig Feature Flag.
DevOps Integrator
National Bank of Canada|February 2022 - September 2022
Developed a cost-saving tool for an AWS sandbox account, guided a Thai development team in Agile adoption, and served as Technical Lead on a DevOps KPI project. Acted as Product Owner for an AD group access management project and supported infrastructure teams in their DevOps transformation.
DevOps/Developer Consultant
Desjardins|January 2020 - February 2022
Developed a Python tool for creating release notes and changelog pages, enhanced an Apollo GraphQL API for environment data retrieval, created the Atlassian CLI app (atlcli), and built a Newman reporter for PowerBI to generate test result reports.
DevOps/Developer
Logient|June 2018 - January 2020
Managed Docker container orchestration, developed Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform to facilitate infrastructure deployment, created CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps, and maintained and automated Linux virtual machines.
.NET Developer
Logient|February 2017 - June 2018
Maintained legacy .NET applications, worked on projects like OPQ's inspection website, and managed applications for L'Oréal.
.NET Developer (Internship)
Logient|January 2016 - May 2016
Contributed to developing solutions for projects and participated in project conception and software maintenance.
Certifications
Professional Scrum Master I
Scrum.org|April 2023
Personal projects
Grades
Android
Proof of concept for an Android mobile application made for students from ÉTS. This would allow a student to consult their class schedule and their grades.
Release note generator
TypeScript
A small tool that generates release notes based on a GraphQL server which contains informations such as all the tasks coming from Jira and all the commits created on Bitbucket.
Newman reporter for PowerBI
JavaScript
A Newman reporter that allows pushing test results to a Power BI Realtime dataset.
Atlassian CLI
Python
A CLI application made for querying informations from Atlassian products. It can also create changelogs and delivery notes pages on Confluence.