Anton Keks
CTO at Stampy.Guru
Estonia
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Top SchoolAnton Keks is a veteran software leader and CTO with 19 years of experience building reliable systems, co-founding Codeborne and currently leading engineering at Stampy.Guru and Grenpay. He blends hands-on full-stack development—authoring the popular Angry IP Scanner—with deep backend expertise demonstrated by contributions to Play, Jooby and Mockito-Kotlin test coverage. A long-time proponent of agile and extreme programming, Anton led Swedbank’s award-winning internet banking team through an agile transformation and co-founded Agile Estonia to grow the community. He teaches advanced Java at TalTech, mentors teams on pragmatic engineering, and is notable for turning practical open-source tools and robust testing practices into scalable production software. In his spare time he plays guitar, rides a motorbike and seeks out remote travel destinations, reflecting a curiosity that fuels both code and leadership.
19 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at TalTech – Tallinn University of Technology
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Github Skills (25)
kotlin10
unit-testing10
java10
micro-framework10
javas10
uid10
front-end-development10
swt10
web-framework10
coroutines10
playframework10
mockito10
test-automation10
testing9
network-programming9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
angryip/ipscan
Mar 2009 - Dec 2022
Angry IP Scanner - fast and friendly network scanner
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:21 releases, 1362 commits, 48 PRs in 13 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Anton primarily contributed to enhancing the user interface and functionality of the Angry IP Scanner. They implemented features like allowing the user to edit openers, improving the display of network information, and incorporating options for selecting IP addresses from local network interfaces. They also addressed bugs and streamlined the codebase.
network-scannersecurityscannerip-scanner
playframework/play1
Jan 2013 - Aug 2017
Play framework
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:85 commits, 11 PRs, 19 comments in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Anton primarily contributed to improving the Play Framework's core backend functionality. Their commits addressed issues related to null pointer exceptions in flash parameters and cache exceptions. They also worked on preserving the order of HTTP GET/POST parameters using LinkedHashMap and preventing XXE vulnerabilities in XML parsing. Further contributions include adding new methods, fixing connection leaks, and refactoring various components.
agileplay-frameworkframeworkjavaweb-framework
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