Anthony Lavado
Senior Cloud Engineer at Kinaxis
Grimsby, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolAnthony Lavado is a Senior Cloud Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, currently advancing reliability and delivery at Kinaxis. He blends deep DevOps and SRE skills—Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Prometheus/Grafana, ArgoCD—with a customer-focused mindset honed in support and Apple Genius roles. A prolific open-source contributor and project co-lead on Jellyfin, he has added backend, front-end, and CI/docs improvements that improve stability and user experience for a widely used free media platform. Anthony pursues independent hardware and IoT projects in his spare time, pairing late-night Bash and Raspberry Pi tinkering with a curiosity for human-computer interaction. Known for obsessive learning, attention to detail, and fast troubleshooting, he regularly turns feedback into measurable operational improvements. Based in Grimsby, Ontario, he brings both broad systems expertise and an unusual mix of hobbyist creativity to engineering problems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Media Arts, Diploma, Media Arts at Sheridan College
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (38)
nuget10
brightscript10
javascript10
url-encoding10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
dlna10
net10
css10
dotnet10
url-scheme10
url-parsing10
url-validation10
cicd10
jellyfin10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
jellyfin/jellyfin-roku-legacy
Jun 2019 - Nov 2022
The Official Roku Client for Jellyfin
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 64 reviews, 157 commits in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Anthony primarily focused on modifying the back-end logic of the Jellyfin Roku client. Their commits addressed URL handling, server connection, and user authentication within the Roku Brightscript environment. Key changes included ensuring proper URL formatting and handling, along with streamlining server connection processes and updating user data management. This work improved the client's stability and user experience by enhancing core functionality.
rokujellyfinjellyfin-clientbrighterscriptbrightscript
jellyfin-archive/jellyfin-docs
Jan 2019 - Aug 2022
Documentation for Jellyfin
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
DevOps Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:15 reviews, 74 commits, 74 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Anthony focused on modifying the build process for the documentation. They updated the `.ci/build-in-ci.ps1` script multiple times to utilize the correct DocFX package and NuGet installation. The commits show the user troubleshooting and refining the build script, switching between Chocolatey and NuGet for package management and adjusting paths to ensure the documentation generation process functioned correctly. The user also collaborated with another contributor on the build script updates.
markdownlintdocumentation-sitedocfxjellyfin
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