Anthony Ford
Infrastructure Engineer at Bethesda Game Studios
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolAnthony Ford is an Infrastructure Engineer with 14 years of experience building reliable software and control systems, primarily in Python, for scientific and research-focused environments. Based in Austin, he has moved from radio astronomy and hardware/firmware integration at Arecibo to web and data platforms for environmental data, and now supports build and infrastructure services at Bethesda Game Studios. He combines hands-on embedded systems work and server-side development with modern web architectures—having led a desktop-to-React/Python web migration and automation projects for provisioning and deployment. An advocate for education and outreach, Anthony also contributes to open-source Python tooling, maintaining and improving Flask-WTF documentation and bug fixes. He is passionate about robust, testable systems and enjoys translating complex scientific requirements into practical, automated solutions.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics and Astronomy, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics and Astronomy at University of Texas at Brownsville
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (7)
python10
forms10
flask10
flask-ask10
wtforms10
documentation9
opencv6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
pallets-eco/flask-wtf
May 2012 - Apr 2013
Simple integration of Flask and WTForms, including CSRF, file upload and Recaptcha integration.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Anthony primarily contributed to the Flask-WTF project by making version updates, improving documentation, and fixing minor issues. They bumped the project's version number several times and corrected links and descriptions in the documentation. Moreover, the user implemented a workaround for a bug related to multiprocessing with Nose and added a fix to cast unicode literals to strings.
file-uploadpythonblueprintpyramidrecaptcha
ajford/dotfiles
Nov 2011 - May 2019
Contributions:88 commits, 20 pushes in 7 years 7 months
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