📍 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • DevOps Team Lead @ OpenText

Manveer Singh Khurana

Architecting resilient enterprise cloud infrastructure by day; building athletic leagues, civic health drives, and youth IT mentorship networks across Ottawa by night.

Executive Summary: Principal DevSecOps Engineer with a Master of Engineering from the University of Ottawa (collaborating with Carleton University). Co-founder & Administrator of the Maple Lions Cricket Club in Ottawa West, organizer of city-wide blood donation drives, and active youth mentor for IT professionals.

#DevSecOps #uOttawaGrad #MapleLionsCC #OttawaCommunity

💻 Engineering & Cloud Portfolio 🏏 Maple Lions & Sports 💬 Youth IT Mentorship

Key Impact Indicators

Verified Metrics

10+ Yrs

Princial Architect (DevSecOps)

M.Eng.

University of Ottawa

400k+

Maple Lions Instagram Views

3,350+

Social & Tech Followers

Spoken Languages: English, Hindi, Punjabi

Primary Base: Ottawa West

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Professional Career & DevSecOps Leadership

This section details Manveer's enterprise engineering leadership at OpenText in Ottawa, highlighting multi-cloud infrastructure governance, Kubernetes container orchestration, secure CI/CD automation, and Python backend scripting.

DevOps Team Lead / Principal DevSecOps Engineer

OpenText • Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Jan 30, 2023 – Present

Directing enterprise cloud operations, infrastructure governance, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines across multi-cloud environments. Bridging software engineering rigor with cloud security to deliver robust enterprise information management solutions.

☁️ Multi-Cloud & Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Designs, provisions, and governs cloud architectures on AWS and Azure using Terraform and OpenTofu. Active open-source advocate for procedural language integrations within IaC toolchains.

📦 Kubernetes & Container Orchestration

Architects and maintains containerized microservices using Docker, Kubernetes (K8s), and Helm charts for streamlined release orchestration and fault tolerance.

🛡️ DevSecOps & Pipeline Automation

Engineers automated build, test, vulnerability scanning, and deployment pipelines utilizing Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD, drastically reducing cycle times while enforcing compliance.

🐍 Python Engineering & System Tooling

Develops custom Python automation utilities, web scrapers, and headless browser processes for automated system health audits and data transformations.

DevSecOps Expertise Focus

Toolchain Weight

Interactive visual representation of enterprise stack focus areas at OpenText.

💡 Open-Source Community Leadership

Contributed to opensource issues, advocating for procedural native language capabilities in infrastructure definitions following the Terraform open-source license transformation.

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Academic Background & Graduate Research

This section outlines Manveer's Master of Engineering foundation in Canada, detailing institutional collaboration between the University of Ottawa and Carleton University, and his undergraduate computer science education in India.

Master's Degree

Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) in Electrical & Computer Engineering

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University of Ottawa | Ottawa, ON, Canada

Specialized in advanced computer engineering, software architecture, and distributed systems. Studied under the Ottawa-Carleton Joint Institute for Electrical and Computer Engineering (OCJIECE) framework, enabling cross-campus course participation and laboratory collaboration at Carleton University.

Academic Bridge Project:

Authored carleton-demo on GitHub to provide instructional code and practical deployment walkthroughs for university peers across Ottawa.

Institution: uOttawa / Carleton Location: Ottawa, ON

Bachelor's Degree

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in Computer Science

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Punjab, India | Jalandhar Region

Established core computational foundations in data structures, object-oriented programming, database management systems, and networking protocols prior to relocating to Canada for graduate engineering studies in 2015.

International Migration Transition:

Evaluated Canadian graduate engineering institutions across uOttawa, Carleton, and Queen's, prioritizing computer engineering depth and urban industry access.

Foundation: Computer Science Origin: Punjab, India

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Open-Source Code Repositories & Engineering

Explore Manveer's public software repositories and technical advocacy. Use the filter controls below to search by programming language, utility type, or project title.

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🐍 denmanveer / corona

GPL-3.0

Automated CLI epidemiological monitoring tool (corona_update.py). Scrapes real-time public health data from Worldometer and Canada.ca via Selenium WebDriver, serializes statistics to JSON, and dispatches multi-country automated email notifications via SMTP.

Python 3.6 Selenium JSON Scraper SMTP Alerts

github.com/denmanveer/corona ↗

📄 denmanveer / file_reader

Python Utility

Lightweight data ingestion and parsing engine engineered to ingest structured JSON and CSV datasets, perform data validation, and produce console-based statistical summaries.

Python JSON Parsing CSV Reader

github.com/denmanveer/file_reader ↗

🎓 denmanveer / carleton-demo

Pedagogical Repo

Instructional repository created to demonstrate software engineering best practices, git workflows, and deployment fundamentals for university students at Carleton University.

Academic Walkthrough CI Workflows Carleton uOttawa

github.com/denmanveer/carleton-demo ↗

🌐 OpenTofu Community Issue #601

IaC Advocacy

Technical proposal and advocacy regarding procedural native programming language capabilities inside open-source Infrastructure as Code toolchains.

OpenTofu Terraform Procedural IaC

opentofu/issues/601 ↗

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Maple Lions Cricket Club & Ottawa Athletics Hub

Manveer is the co-founder, administrator and player for the Maple Lions Cricket Club in Ottawa West. This section displays tournament viewership data, league standings, and regional grounds across Ottawa.

2026 Tournament Performance Dashboard

Maple Lions Tapeball League (2026) League Runner-Up

Organized 32 competitive matches across 8 teams. Generated over 22,259 views on the CricHeroes platform, reaching a Championship Final at François Dupuis Recreation Center (FDRC) against Bayshore Super Kings.

📍 Primary Grounds & Locations

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Lynda Lane Park 580 Smyth Rd, Ottawa

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François Dupuis Rec Center (FDRC) Orleans / Ottawa East Match Venue

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W.C. Levesque Park & Lynda Lane Park Ottawa West & Central Tapeball Grounds

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Millennium Sports Park ICA Cup Tournament Finals Grounds

Corporate League Partners

Yograj Singh Realtor Ravi Inder Singh Realtor Harpeet Singh (Zoho financial)

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Civic Leadership, Blood Drives & Mentorship

Manveer connects enterprise technology, sports administration, and civic responsibility across Ottawa. Learn about his community blood drives, cultural advocacy, and WhatsApp youth IT guidance.

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Ottawa Community Blood Drives

Organizes group blood and plasma donation drives across Ottawa. Mobilizes Maple Lions athletes, South Asian diaspora networks, and Ottawa tech workers to support Canadian blood collection centers.

Impact: Regular Group Donations in Ottawa

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WhatsApp Youth IT Mentorship

Administers a dedicated WhatsApp network for students, new graduates, and international arrivals. Offers free guidance on DevSecOps learning paths, cloud certifications (AWS/Azure), resume optimization, co-op transitions, and newcomer settlement.

Identifier: @denmanveer

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India Canada Association (ICA)

Active community volunteer partnering with the India Canada Association as Nominated Director in the Executive committee for regional sports tournaments and landmark cultural events, including ICA Cricket cup, Community Picnic, Diwali at Parliament Hill, etc.

Focus: Cultural Unity & Integration