Anthony Stanton
Staff Platform Engineer
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAnthony Stanton is a Staff Platform Engineer with 13 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, delivery pipelines, and automation for e-commerce and SaaS companies. Based in Berlin, he has progressed from hands-on systems and datacentre roles to leading platform initiatives and multi-account AWS governance at Contentful and now Personio. He blends deep operational experience (Ubuntu, Terraform, Chef, Docker, Jenkins/CircleCI) with people leadership—mentoring engineers and shaping cross-team best practices. An active open-source contributor, he has added features and tests to HashiCorp projects like Terraform and the Terraform Plugin SDK, including a new interpolation function and Route53 fixes. Comfortable with both technical strategy and business considerations, he’s worked across HR, procurement, finance, and product while advocating DevOps culture. He’s known for turning complex platform problems into repeatable, tested automation that boosts developer throughput.
13 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Engenharia de Computação Computing Computer Engineering, Engenharia de Computação Computing Computer Engineering at Universidade Estadual de CampinasBritish School Rio de Janeiro
English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German
Github Skills (14)
route5310
terraformer10
infrastructure-as-code10
go10
aws10
terraform10
testing10
terraform-provider9
sdk9
apidoc7
cicd7
api7
grpc-go3
grpc3
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/terraform
Jul 2015 - Apr 2018
Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:28 commits, 14 PRs, 56 comments in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Anthony's contributions focused on enhancing the Terraform provider for AWS Route53. They addressed an issue related to zero-weighted records and added acceptance tests. Furthermore, the user implemented a new interpolation function named "compact", along with associated test cases. They also made updates to support Librato alerts and services, and bumped dependencies such as terraform-provider-aws and aws-sdk-go.
terraformgraphinfrastructure-as-codecloudcloud-management
hashicorp/terraform-plugin-sdk
Sep 2015 - Oct 2015
Terraform Plugin SDK enables building plugins (providers) to manage any service providers or custom in-house solutions
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 23 days
Contributions summary:Anthony primarily focused on implementing and testing a new interpolation function, `compact()`, within the Terraform Plugin SDK. This involved writing test cases to ensure the function's correctness, modifying existing code to incorporate the new functionality, and refactoring related code, including renaming functions and reordering code elements. The user also made adjustments to test cases, showcasing a commitment to thorough testing of implemented features.
terraformsdkgrpcgrpc-goterraform-provider
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