Anthony Truskinger
Software Architect Senior Research Assistant Research Assistant (Full Stack Developer) at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolAnthony Truskinger is a solutions-focused Research Software Engineer and Software Architect with 17 years building full-stack, data-intensive systems for academic research at QUT. He uniquely blends PhD-level ecoacoustics research with hands-on engineering, delivering production-ready, distributed software and managing hybrid infrastructures that currently span two dozen servers and hundreds to nearly a thousand concurrent CPUs. Comfortable across C#, F#, Ruby, JavaScript, SQL and cloud platforms (OpenStack, AWS, Azure, GCP), he automates operations with Ansible and containers to scale from 30 TB/year to a planned 0.6 PB/year of ingest. An active open-source contributor, he has improved .NET command-line parsing to support complex numeric and nullable types and extensible parsers, reflecting a focus on practical extensibility and reproducible tooling. Colleagues rely on him to turn scientific ideas into robust, scalable systems that bridge research and production.
17 years of coding experience
High School Certificate, OP2 ≈ top 5.5% of cohort, High School Certificate, OP2 ≈ top 5.5% of cohort at Southport State High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Ecoacoustics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Ecoacoustics at Queensland University of Technology
English
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Github Skills (17)
unit-testing10
datatypes10
net10
dotnet-new10
dotnet10
asp-net10
dotnet-core10
command-line10
data-handling10
csharp10
reflection7
reflections7
stream6
vbnet6
sql6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
natemcmaster/CommandLineUtils
Feb 2018 - Apr 2018
Command line parsing and utilities for .NET
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 37 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Anthony primarily focused on enhancing the command-line utility library by adding support for parsing floating-point numbers (float and double) and nullable variants. They implemented new value parsers for these types and integrated them into the existing parsing infrastructure. Additionally, the user improved the library by allowing users to add their own custom value parsers, increasing flexibility for specific data types and formats, which included examples for DateTimeOffset, and custom double parsing with ISO80000 number formats. Finally, the user addressed subcommand validation models, ensuring that the models are given values before validation.
command-linedotnetparsingdotnet-core
QutEcoacoustics/baw-workers
May 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:9 PRs, 19 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 10 months
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