Anthony Lapenna is a product-minded engineer and co-founder of Portainer with 12 years' experience building and operating container platforms that simplify Docker and Kubernetes management. Grounded in software development and systems engineering, he blends backend and DevOps expertise—having implemented multi-user access control, LDAP integration, and cross-architecture build/CI improvements for Portainer—with hands-on work managing Docker Swarm clusters and large hybrid cloud estates. He champions automation and developer-operations collaboration, having moved teams from manual ops to tool-driven workflows and open-source UIs (notably contributing full-stack improvements to the original UI-for-Docker project). Based in Auckland, he also leads the local while42 chapter, reflecting his commitment to the engineering community and open-source collaboration.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Epitech
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Portsmouth
Contributions:111 releases, 283 reviews, 1537 commits in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Anthony primarily focused on backend development within the Portainer project, contributing to user access control (UAC) and overall system functionality. The user implemented features for managing multiple users, updating settings, and integrating LDAP authentication, enhancing the security features of the platform. Additionally, they worked on the build system, updating build scripts for various architectures and addressing related CI/CD issues, suggesting a strong DevOps skillset.
A web interface for Docker, formerly known as DockerUI. This repo is not maintained
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:7 commits, 15 PRs, 13 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Anthony primarily contributed to the UI for Docker project by implementing features, addressing bugs, and refactoring existing code. Their work included enhancing the user's ability to pull images from custom registries, connecting to TLS-protected Docker engines, and modifying the start-up procedure for containers. Furthermore, they split the core application file into modular components. These changes improved functionality and usability.
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