David Robillard
Sr. SRE And Security Technical Producer at Haven Studios Inc
Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Robillard is a seasoned SRE and security-focused technical producer with 20 years of experience building and leading operations, DevOps, and cloud teams across major game studios and enterprise environments. Currently Sr. SRE and Security Technical Producer at Haven Studios, he combines practical backend and data-center expertise with a people-first leadership style that prioritizes humility, trust, and team wellbeing to sustain velocity and on-budget delivery. He has driven online and cloud platform initiatives at Eidos-Montréal and EA, scaling production infrastructure while integrating security and reliability practices into game development pipelines. An active open-source contributor, he has improved the Meson build system by addressing compiler warnings, coverage reporting, and code quality — a sign of his attention to tooling and maintainability. With a background spanning UNIX, Oracle, AIX, and modern cloud stacks plus formal study in C++ and diverse certifications, he uniquely bridges legacy high-availability systems and contemporary cloud-native operations. Outside work he applies his curiosity to music production software and linked-data projects, reflecting a blend of technical rigor and creative interests.
20 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. Biochemistry, B.Sc. Biochemistry at Université de MontréalOracle CorporationGoogleLinux AcademyHitachi Data SystemsTechnologiaSun MicrosystemsSonicWALLC++14 et C++V17, C++14 et C++V17 at Université de SherbrookeMongoDB inc.O'Reilly School of TechnologyIBMVeritasSaltStackVMwareHakin9Cisco SystemsAmplify MOOC - AP Computer SciencePluralsight
French, Spanish, English
Github Skills (10)
mesonbuild10
build-system10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
software-quality10
python10
gcc9
compiler-design9
testing8
documentation7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
mesonbuild/meson
Jul 2022 - Nov 2022
The Meson Build System
Role in this project:
Software Engineer (Build System Specialist)
Software Engineer (Build System Specialist)Contributions:10 reviews, 3 commits, 9 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to improving the Meson build system by addressing various code quality and functionality issues. They fixed spelling errors throughout the codebase, including in comments and documentation. The user added a new warning level option ("everything") for GCC compilers, implementing its behavior and fixing an issue with its implementation. They also addressed coverage reporting issues with lcov, and made various other fixes across the codebase, including inconsistent rule descriptions and option descriptions, improving overall code quality and maintainability.
build-system
drobilla/clant
Dec 2020 - Jan 2025
Contributions:12 pushes, 3 branches, 3 tags in 4 years 1 month
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