Anthony Eden
Founder at DNSimple
Melbourne, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolAnthony Eden is a seasoned founder and engineer with 19 years building developer-facing infrastructure, best known as the creator and CEO of DNSimple. He combines deep systems and API design expertise across Erlang, Elixir, Go, Ruby, Java and JavaScript to make DNS and domain automation approachable for users of all skill levels. His career blends entrepreneurial startups and product-focused engineering leadership—from Signature Domains and chi.mp to a senior developer role at LivingSocial—demonstrating an ability to deliver reliable services at scale. Anthony’s work emphasizes pragmatic, well-automated tooling (he jokingly describes himself as a “vendor of duct tape and purveyor of UDP packets”), reflecting a bias for simple, robust solutions. Based in Melbourne, Florida, he continues to found and advise companies while remaining active in language-driven systems and operations. Outside engineering he brings creative discipline from a BA in Music, a detail that informs his pragmatic yet inventive approach to product design.
19 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Music, BA, Music at University of Miami
English, French, German, management-speak
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
dnsimple10
api-client10
powerdns10
traceroute10
ruby10
dns10
synchronize10
dns-record10
api10
recurring10
erlang10
dsl10
endpoint10
nodejs10
routeros10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
dnsimple/erldns
Jul 2012 - Dec 2020
DNS server, in Erlang.
Contributions:21 reviews, 850 commits, 76 PRs in 8 years 5 months
erlangdnsimple-policy-devdnsimple-policy-dev-activednsdns-server
aeden/refinery
Feb 2009 - Jan 2010
Contributions:150 commits in 10 months
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