Designed and operated distributed game-server infrastructure, multi-cloud provider operations, CI/CD automation, monitoring, scaling, and internal platform services.
KubernetesCI/CDObservabilityInfrastructure automationIncident responsePlatform interfacesTerraformGrafanaProduction systems
open to DevOps consultation through DevOps4Hire
Gabriel Boucher builds the systems behind the launch.
Platform / DevOps Engineer turning infrastructure, observability, and release work into systems teams can trust when production is awake.
- name
- Gabriel Boucher
- role
- Platform / DevOps Engineer
- mode
- systems built over time
- source
- github.com/gaboucher
launch.board runtime proof
provision ready deploy shipping observe watching Professional summary
resume.summary DevOps / Platform Engineer with 6+ years of experience designing and operating distributed cloud infrastructure.
- Designed and operated distributed cloud infrastructure with Kubernetes, Docker, GCP, AWS, Terraform, Go, and Python.
- Focused on automation, scalability, observability, and infrastructure cost optimization for production systems.
- Built cloud-provider abstractions, CI/CD automation, monitoring rules, image distribution systems, APIs, and internal services.
Experience
Edgegap / systems built over time database failover hardened
release/2026 deployed capability PostgreSQL high availability and recovery
- Migrated a standalone PostgreSQL database to a Patroni-managed cluster with replication and automated primary failover.
- Implemented point-in-time recovery with pgBackRest and logical backups with pg_dump, storing backups in S3 buckets.
- Deployed HAProxy for database connection routing and load balancing.
- Implemented PgBouncer connection pooling to reuse PostgreSQL connections and reduce connection overhead.
- Investigated PostgreSQL replication failures, including multixact replay errors and replica recovery procedures.
resource curve tuned
release/2025 deployed capability Cost, metrics, and client observability
- Optimized container resource usage across monitoring APIs, proxies, game servers, and edge locations to reduce infrastructure costs.
- Reduced metric ingestion volume.
- Developed Grafana dashboards for clients to monitor their game servers.
pipelines and runtime upgraded
release/2024 deployed capability Delivery speed and runtime modernization
- Optimized CI/CD pipelines to reduce waiting times and pipeline costs.
- Replaced a legacy DNS server with a replicated CoreDNS setup using Redis, with automatic scaling.
- Migrated the infrastructure container runtime from Docker to containerd.
provider layer expanded
release/2023 deployed capability Provider integrations and game-server signals
- Developed cloud-provider API integrations to provision virtual machines, bare-metal servers, VPCs, disks, and supporting resources.
- Implemented game-server metrics collection.
nodes joined the cluster
release/2022 deployed capability K3s deployment migration
- Migrated standalone-node deployments to K3s, a lightweight Kubernetes distribution suited to Edgegap infrastructure.
platform signals online
release/2021 deployed capability Monitoring foundation and orchestration
- Implemented monitoring and dashboards using Prometheus and Grafana.
- Helped design and develop the game-server orchestration system.
Earlier experience
LaPlank / operations under pressure - Prepared and cooked meals in a fast-paced kitchen.
- Managed ingredient inventory and supported team efficiency during peak hours.
- Followed sanitation standards and maintained cooking equipment.
Skills
stack.yml tracked / explainable / replaceable
platform map Cloud & infra
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Helm
- GCP
- AWS
- Linode
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Linux / Unix
Observe
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- PagerDuty
- SQL
- PromQL
- MQL
Programming
- Go
- Python
- Bash
- C#
- TypeScript
- Flask
- FastAPI
- Gin
Languages
- French - Native
- English - Fluent
- Japanese - Beginner
Work with Gabriel through DevOps4Hire.
For platform engineering, DevOps automation, observability, scaling, or infrastructure cost work, the consultation starts on the main DevOps4Hire site.
Good fit for
Book a consultation - Kubernetes and cloud platform work
- CI/CD, provisioning, and automation
- Monitoring, incidents, and cost reduction