Anthony Engelstad
Site Reliability Team Lead at Pepperstone
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAnthony Engelstad is a Site Reliability Team Lead based in Melbourne with nine years of SRE, DevOps, and engineering leadership experience across financial services and cloud-native consultancies. He has progressed from hands-on support and integration work at NAB to leading SRE teams at Versent, Stax, and now Pepperstone, blending incident response, automation, and observability into reliable production platforms. Anthony contributes to open-source tooling—most notably improving the saml2aws CLI to better support MFA and complex SAML flows—demonstrating a practical focus on identity and access resilience. He excels at taking operational proofs-of-concept to enterprise-grade services (e.g., growing Splunk adoption at NAB) and mentoring teams through technical transitions. Colleagues describe him as someone who both fixes and intentionally breaks things to learn how systems fail, turning lessons into durable runbooks and tooling.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering Network, Engineering Network at RMIT University
Github Skills (9)
security10
user-authentication10
authentication10
go10
ping10
aws10
adfs10
saml10
okta9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Versent/saml2aws
Oct 2017 - Nov 2019
CLI tool which enables you to login and retrieve AWS temporary credentials using a SAML IDP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 4 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Anthony primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the `saml2aws` CLI tool. Their contributions involved adding support for multi-factor authentication (MFA) with Symantec VIP and resolving issues with PingFederate MFA. They also refactored to handle multiple redirects and intermediate SAML relays in the Okta implementation. These changes indicate a focus on improving the tool's compatibility and robustness with various identity providers.
idpsaml-idpcredentialsawsretrieve
Anton0/reference-honeycomb-traced-stepfunction
Feb 2020 - Apr 2022
Contributions:1 review, 1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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