Erick Bourgeois
Director at RBC Capital Markets
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolErick Bourgeois is a platform engineering leader with 15+ years of experience building and scaling container infrastructure for global financial institutions, currently leading Kubernetes Platform Engineering at RBC Capital Markets. He manages multi-cloud, air-gapped Kubernetes deployments and a team delivering 50+ clusters with GitOps-driven automation, observability, and security integrations that accelerate application adoption. Previously at Morgan Stanley he helped create on-prem container orchestration long before Kubernetes became mainstream, operating platforms that served tens of thousands of applications and scaled to massive server footprints. Erick combines hands-on systems engineering (Python, C, low-level Linux work) with product and budget ownership, proving he can move both code and business metrics. A frequent conference speaker and open-source contributor, he also builds niche tooling such as a Rust-based Kubernetes controller for DNS, reflecting a preference for pragmatic, high-performance solutions. Based in Montreal, he thrives at the intersection of cloud-native innovation and the strict compliance needs of regulated industries.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Lower Canada CollegeComputer Science, Computer Science at Concordia UniversityMathematics, Mathematics at Università dell'AquilaComputer Science, Computer Science at York University
French, Italian, English, Spanish
Github Skills (60)
kubernetes10
kustomize10
continuous-delivery10
gitops10
helm10
flask10
minecraft9
json9
python9
swagger9
rest9
fabric9
api9
restful9
wit-ai7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
firestoned/firestone
Oct 2022 - May 2026
Contributions:3 reviews, 46 PRs, 28 pushes in 3 years 7 months
firestoned/bindy
Nov 2025 - Jul 2026
Bind9 Kubernetes Controller
Contributions:10 releases, 2 reviews, 69 PRs in 7 months
kubernetes
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