Anthony Baxter
Full Stack Developer at United Workers Union
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAnthony Baxter is a seasoned full stack developer with 24 years of experience building resilient, large-scale systems from telecom billing and ISP infrastructure to Google Maps and Android location services. He has led high-impact projects at Google—including an Android geocoder replacement deployed across over a billion devices—and contributed to critical open-source tooling like setuptools, improving dependency handling and build robustness. Based in Sydney, he combines deep backend expertise with practical product instincts honed in startups, enterprise and contracting roles, and has a track record of coordinating with SREs and external agencies to keep services reliable under extreme load. Outside of work he balances contracting and personal projects with being a new dad, reflecting a pragmatic, impact-driven approach to technology.
24 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Robotics/Digital Systems, Bachelor's degree, Robotics/Digital Systems at Monash University
Github Skills (8)
dependency-management10
build-system10
python10
setuptools10
rpm9
versioning9
distutils9
software-packaging8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
pypa/setuptools
Mar 2004 - Mar 2006
Official project repository for the Setuptools build system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Anthony primarily contributed to the core functionality of the setuptools build system. They implemented and refined dependency checking mechanisms within the `dist.py` file, adding features for handling package dependencies and versioning. The user also addressed build-related issues and made changes to the RPM building process, indicating a focus on ensuring the build process's robustness. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the `build_ext` command, and also worked on `command/install.py`.
setuptoolsbuild-system
anthonybaxter/ckanapi
Jul 2021 - Jul 2021
A command line interface and Python module for accessing the CKAN Action API
Contributions:5 pushes in 1 day
apipythoncommand-line-interfacepython-moduleckan
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