Who is Andre Courchesne ?

Professional experience

25 years doing various electronic designs, re-engineering or integration
21 years managing IP networks
20 years using Linux for server and desktop applications
18 years doing code at a professional level
18 years using version control as a core key of the software development process(CVS, Git)
16 years of technical support experience (on the phone and in the field)
10 years working mainly remotely while keeping a strong work discipline, professionalism and ethics
6 years experience managing customers projects of up to 5M$/year

Team management

Programming language experience

Ruby, Golang, C, Perl, Bash, x86 Assembly, PHP, HTML, HTML/CSS/JS/jQuery, Electron just to name a few languages I am deeply familiar with.
I use the language I feel will be the best for the task at hand

Hardware platform experience

Professional views

Information sharing is the key to success
GitLab is an essential tool for engineering team management and project management.

Don’t work on something if there is no GitLab ticket for it.
Use shipit-cli (https://gitlab.com/intello/shipit-cli) so that all merge request are uniform.
Rebase and squash to before merge to maintain a clean head
Maintain a changeling using Semantic versioning

If you develop for Linux use Linux or macOS not Windows.
If it exists and it’s open-source and does 80% of what you need why re-invent it ? Add to it, use it and share it when ever possible.
Thrive on open-source, share it, embrace it.
Automatization for uniformity, avoid snow flakes (Ansible, scripts,…)

Andre Courchesne - Consultant