Anthony King
Senior Backend Engineer at Elsewhen
United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarAnthony King is a Senior Backend Engineer based in the UK with 13 years of experience building resilient, secure cloud platforms and distributed services. He has strong hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD (GitHub Actions), and platform hardening—skills honed running multi-tenant clusters and designing low-latency, secure execution of user code at Datapane. Anthony blends infrastructure and developer experience work, from implementing monorepo task runners and continuous SDK releases to shipping an in-browser Monaco editor backed by ephemeral containers. He has led DevOps transformations focused on cost optimisation, compliance (Cyber Essentials/ISO27001), and service reliability across fintech and SaaS environments. An active contributor to the Datapane open-source project, he improves documentation, CI, and tooling to smooth developer workflows. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, security-first platform design that enables fast iteration without sacrificing resilience.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (14)
python10
cicd9
documentation9
javascript8
github-ci8
jinja28
githubaction-workflow8
reporting-services7
web-components7
data-visualizations7
data-visualisation7
data-visualization7
dashboard7
tailwindcss6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
datapane/datapane
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Build and share data reports in 100% Python
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:41 reviews, 149 commits, 41 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Anthony primarily contributed to the Datapane project by addressing documentation issues, implementing pre-commit hooks and CI/CD changes, and bumping versions. They made improvements to the documentation, incorporated code style and linting fixes across multiple files, and configured pre-commit support. They also upgraded dependencies and server configurations, demonstrating involvement across the Python client and documentation aspects of the project.
data-analysispythonreportssciencereporting
FundingOptions/customer-events-python-client
Sep 2019 - Apr 2021
Contributions:1 release, 9 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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