# Starting as a teaching assistant at Polytechnique Montréal

> I started as a teaching assistant at Polytechnique Montréal. On the CV, that role is DevSecOps, LOG 8100, from September 2024.

- HTML page: https://antoineboucher.info/CV/blog/posts/polytechnique-teaching-start/
- Language: en
- Translation (fr): https://antoineboucher.info/CV/blog/fr/posts/polytechnique-teaching-start/index.md
- Published: 2024-09-02
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- Tags: Teaching, Polytechnique Montréal, DevSecOps
- Author: Antoine Boucher (https://antoineboucher.info/CV/index-en.html)I started as a teaching assistant (chargé de travaux pratiques) at [Polytechnique Montréal](https://www.polymtl.ca/), on the DevSecOps course (LOG 8100).

![Guest session with Arctiq in LOG 8100](https://antoineboucher.info/CV/blog/posts/polytechnique-teaching-start/images/arctiq-guest-session.png)

## What the role covers

The LinkedIn post only names the title and the school. The CV entry (September 2024 to January 2026) describes the work itself:

- Built and maintained the GitLab workspace for the course: repositories, CI/CD templates, runners and workflows for approximately 20 concurrent teams.
- Coached Docker and Kubernetes build, deploy and debug sessions, with lab scenarios driven by OWASP guidance.
- Refreshed the DevSecOps lab artifacts, graded practicals and coached resubmissions.

## Why it mattered to me

Running a GitLab workspace for twenty teams at once is a small platform job: templates have to be reusable, runners have to stay healthy during deadline weeks, and every lab has to be reproducible on a student laptop. It is the same discipline I apply to my own CI/CD and homelab work, which is why this role sits next to the platform engineering experience on the CV.

## Related

- [DevSecOps and platform work on the CV](https://antoineboucher.info/CV/index-en.html#work)
- [Teaching at ÉTS](https://antoineboucher.info/CV/blog/posts/software-engineering-journey/) for the other teaching track.

Source: [LinkedIn activity](https://www.linkedin.com/in/antoineboucher12/recent-activity/all/) and the CV work entry.