Anton Smith
Senior Support Engineer at GitLab
Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
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Top SchoolAnton Smith is a Senior Support Engineer at GitLab with 11 years of IT experience, combining deep Linux server management and customer-facing troubleshooting with a growing focus on DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes and Ruby on Rails. Based in Dunedin, he mentors teammates, helps shape product fixes and enhancements from real customer interactions, and participates in hiring and on-call incident response. Anton excels at translating complex technical issues into clear, empathetic explanations and documentation, making solutions accessible to varied audiences. Driven by IoT automation and community-minded digital tools, he continually pushes beyond his comfort zone to learn new technologies and improve operational reliability.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor, Information Technology, Bachelor, Information Technology at Southern Institute of TechnologyBachelor, Information Technology, Bachelor, Information Technology at Otago Polytechnic
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Github Skills (131)
minecraft10
cms10
silverstripe10
statsd10
postgresql10
grafana10
influxdb10
monitoring10
graphite10
linux10
rcon10
data-visualization10
database10
mvc-framework10
kubernetes10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
antons-/silverstripe-ssp
Jan 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 2 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year 2 months
simplesamlphpsilverstripeauthenticationsilverstripe-3
antons-/180189-cicd-github
Nov 2020 - Apr 2022
Contributions:11 PRs, 15 pushes, 14 branches in 1 year 5 months
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