Lucas Melin

@lucasmelin
Ottawa, Canada

Developer Education

DevOps

Software Engineering

Team Lead

Python

Automation

Open Source

Software Testing

Mechanical Keyboard Enthusiast

Rabbit Hole Explorer

I work with developers to help them tackle the challenges they face in their daily lives - whether it's by building developer tools and platforms, facilitating cross-team discussions, or just acting as a sounding board and code reviewer.

Resume

Apr 2022 - Present

Senior Engineer - Terraform Developer Productivity, HashiCorp

Aug 2020 - Apr 2022

Developer Productivity Team Lead, Bank of Canada

Jan 2017 - Aug 2020

QA Systems Testing Analyst - Test Automation, Bank of Canada

Sep 2016 - Dec 2016

Identity Management Specialist - IT Security, Bank of Canada

Portfolio

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Spoke at Hack Hours today about MLOps, and the similarities with DevOps practices. 4 core principles of MLOps that we discussed are: • Versioning (model code and datasets) • Automated data pipeline...

I discovered Bitburner this weekend - it's an incremental game where you take on the role of a hacker in a cyber-punk world. You interact with the game-world from a terminal using actual Unix comma...

Re-read Black Hat Python again over my winter break as it just caught my eye while I was organizing my ebook collection. Decided that I would follow along and implement the exercises myself this ti...

Splurged and got myself a ZSA Moonlander. Split, ortholinear layout, fully programmable firmware, just too tempting to resist. It's definitely going to become my new daily driver.

Things I’ve built

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Published molting-release-action, my first public GitHub Action, to the GitHub Marketplace. It uses the molting Python package to update your changelog, bump your package version, and publish a new...

Just published this weekend's side project - wordle-operator, which lets you play Wordle from your Kubernetes cluster! I've been wanting to build a Kubernetes operator as a weekend project for a li...

Decided to brush up on my React skills during some of my winter downtime by learning NextJS. Managed to put together a fun little landing page by leveraging a little bit of Tailwind and some Fontaw...

Created a python package called GitFix that helps you recover from git mistakes by following a step-by-step wizard.

Speaking engagements

Demoed at Hack Hours a FastAPI app I built to convert XML to JSON in a webpage in order to show how simple it is to use FastAPI to build a frontend on top of a REST API.

Spoke at Hack Hours about two things I picked up from Dave Beazley's Advanced Programming course. Link to code examples and README. 2. The State Machine pattern - a useful way to break complex cond...