Andrew Cutler
Founder & Director at Volt Grid Pty Ltd
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Cutler is a founder and director with 15 years of hands-on experience building and operating production cloud infrastructure, currently leading Panubo and Volt Grid from Sydney. He specialises in Kubernetes and Docker-powered platforms, combining proactive 24/7 incident response with tooling that keeps clients’ services reliable and performant. A pragmatic engineer-operator, he moves between coding, infrastructure and customer collaboration—evidenced by contributions to Docker tooling and improvements to Django registration workflows. His background spans founding multiple companies and directing open-source initiatives, giving him a rare mix of entrepreneurial drive and deep operational discipline. Known for solving subtle permission and security issues in containerised environments, he excels at turning reliability challenges into repeatable solutions.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Barker CollegeThe University of Sydney
Github Skills (26)
alpine-linux10
docker10
security-hardening10
python10
scripting10
django10
linux10
bash10
dockers10
rsync10
script10
sh10
shell10
devops10
sftp10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
panubo/docker-sshd
Jun 2015 - Aug 2022
Minimal Alpine Linux Docker image with sshd exposed and rsync installed
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:6 releases, 3 reviews, 118 commits in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on improving the functionality and security of the Dockerized SSHD image. Their contributions include adding features for user management (adding users with specific UIDs/GIDs and setting shells), enabling and disabling password authentication, and configuring SFTP, SCP and rsync modes. Additionally, the user implemented configurations for the SSHD server such as enabling TCP forwarding and gateway ports. The user also addressed permissions issues within the container environment to ensure the security and correct operation of SSHD.
docker-imagessh-serverrsyncsshdsftp
macropin/django-registration
Apr 2014 - Jun 2022
Django-registration (redux) provides user registration functionality for Django websites.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 111 commits, 45 PRs in 8 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Andrew contributed to the Django-registration project by addressing compatibility issues with Django 1.6 and later versions. They updated the codebase to utilize Class-Based Views (CBVs) and incorporated test support, including adding a test application. The user made modifications to several templates and settings files, including adding email and debugging settings.
pythondjangoregistrationuser-registrationdjango-registration
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