These days, I’m a DevOps Engineer at Gluwa Technology — the folks behind Creditcoin & Spacecoin (and other things). I spend most of my time making sure things don’t catch fire (and if they do, I automate the water hoses).
I’ve been at this for two decades now. I started as a backend developer, took on enough frontend work to be useful, and kept stepping in on the operations side whenever teams needed support. Being the go-to sysadmin showed me how much I enjoy that work, so I leaned in and now focus on DevOps full time.
- Cloud & Infrastructure: Azure, AWS, Digital Ocean, Linode, OVH, Vultr (and the next provider that shows up)
- Languages & Frameworks: TypeScript/JavaScript, .NET, Python, Bash, PowerShell — plus just enough PHP history to keep legacy apps breathing
- Automation & Platform: Kubernetes (AKS, DOKS, LKE, VKE), Docker, Helm, Argo CD, Octopus Deploy
- CI/CD & Release Ops: GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps Pipelines, GitLab CI, Jenkins, CircleCI
- Infrastructure & Configuration: Terraform, Bicep, Kustomize, Ansible
- Observability & Reliability: Prometheus, Grafana, Grafana Loki, Grafana Alloy, OpenTelemetry, New Relic, Sentry
- Secrets & Config: HashiCorp Vault, Azure Key Vault
Technology keeps changing, and I’ve learned to enjoy chasing the wave instead of fighting it.
- Build and break things in the cloud
- Automate repetitive tasks so humans don’t have to
- Implement resilient setups and watch resource usage so nothing collapses at 3 AM
- Ship reliable changes with CI/CD pipelines, GitOps, and release automation
- Codify infrastructure, policies, and guardrails so platforms stay consistent
- Wire up observability to catch weirdness before it escalates
- Write docs and runbooks so future-us know what to do when things get weird
- Partner with dev teams on delivery while keeping security front and center
- Volunteering at my local school gets teens tinkering with Arduino projects.
- Weekly deep dives into new tech keep the curiosity sharp.
- Designing and 3D printing gadgets for the sheer fun of it.
- Guitar practice alternates between tabs, theory, and improvising toward cleaner riffs.
Want to chat about tech, DevOps, or something fun? Reach out:
- Connect with me on LinkedIn
- Shoot me an email at me@jonathanlafleur.ca
P.S. My GitHub activity may or may not reflect late-night coffee-fueled coding sessions. You’ve been warned.