Anthony Dempsey
Software Engineer at Ciena
Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAnthony Dempsey is a software engineer with 11 years' experience building and maintaining networking and routing software, currently contributing at Ciena from Scotland. His background includes roles at AT&T and Vyatta where he maintained critical keepalived and vyatta-vrrp codebases for the DANOS routing OS, reflecting deep expertise in network infrastructure and open-source maintenance. He began his career in development testing and internships at Cisco and HarperCollins, and holds an MSci in Software Engineering from the University of Glasgow. Anthony combines hands-on systems work with a penchant for problem-solving and mentoring, evidenced by earlier tutoring and cross-disciplinary project work. Focused on gaining industry experience and connections, he aims to parlay his production engineering skills into founding his own business. An understated strength is his long-term commitment to operationally critical code that keeps networks stable under real-world conditions.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Cardinal Newman High SchoolMSci, Software Engineering, 2:1, MSci, Software Engineering, 2:1 at The University of Glasgow
Github Skills (28)
netlink10
daemon10
keepalived9
bfd9
snmp9
linux9
ipvs9
multiplexer9
docker8
command-line-interface8
infrastructure8
threejs8
oculus8
high-availability8
aframe7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
danos/keepalived
May 2019 - Nov 2021
Contributions:99 commits in 2 years 6 months
AJDempsey/curses-playground
Dec 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:31 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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