Marcus Crane
Lead Platform Engineer
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolMarcus Crane is a Site Reliability Engineer with nine years of experience, currently a Staff SRE at Vend / Lightspeed based in Auckland. He specializes in improving reliability and developer experience for backend and platform tooling. As an active open-source contributor to the widely used Backstage project, he implemented robust scaffolding backend fixes and extended GitHub PR actions to correctly handle broken symbolic links. His work reflects a knack for finding and fixing subtle filesystem and CI/CD edge cases that prevent brittle failures in production developer workflows.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Full-stack Development, Full-stack Development at Enspiral Dev Academy
English
Stackoverflow
35reputation
471reached
1answer
3questions
Github Skills (27)
scaffolding10
filesystem10
typescript310
serializable10
node-js10
serializer10
file-systems10
typescript10
file-io10
file-system10
typescript210
filesystems10
file-operations10
serialization10
deserialization10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
backstage/backstage
Mar 2022 - Sep 2022
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 23 commits, 9 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Marcus primarily contributed to the Backstage project by enhancing the scaffolding backend functionality. They addressed issues related to broken symbolic links, ensuring proper handling during file serialization and deserialization within the Scaffolder backend. Additionally, the user extended the GitHub pull request action to correctly handle broken symlinks. These changes reflect improvements to the reliability and robustness of the Backstage's core features.
portalsinfrastructureopen-platformdxbackstage
marcus-crane/utf9k
Jul 2018 - Aug 2019
My personal site built using Hugo and deployed using Netlify
Contributions:19 PRs, 129 pushes, 24 branches in 1 year 1 month
hugojamstackdeployednetlifyhugo-theme
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