Anton Whalley
Platform Engineering Manager
Dublin, Dublin 1, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolAnton Whalley is a Platform Engineering Manager based in Dublin with over 20 years in IT and 14 years of hands-on experience delivering enterprise application architecture and systems integration. He blends cloud-native and edge expertise—demonstrated by consulting work and contributions to projects like the Node.js llnode debugger where he focused on test stability and automation. Anton has held senior technical and leadership roles at IBM, nearForm and as a VP of Engineering, and recently ran his own technology company, proving both strategic and entrepreneurial chops. He excels at introducing new technologies and processes into large organisations, shifting teams from legacy stacks to modern cloud and hybrid architectures. Trained originally in archaeology, he brings a methodical, evidence-driven approach to problem solving and platform design. Known for pragmatic delivery, he pairs deep technical craft with an emphasis on reliability and measurable operational improvements.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Archeology, Archeology at The University of Sheffield
Github Skills (4)
javascript10
nodejs10
testing10
nodes8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
nodejs/llnode
Jun 2017 - Sep 2022
An lldb plugin for Node.js and V8, which enables inspection of JavaScript states for insights into Node.js processes and their core dumps.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 releases, 10 reviews, 18 commits in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Anton primarily contributed to testing and test maintenance within the `llnode` repository. Their commits involved updating existing tests, fixing test failures, and adjusting timeouts to accommodate changes in the testing environment or dependencies. They also addressed issues related to multi-line error handling and removed outdated testing configurations, demonstrating a focus on test suite stability and reliability.
inspectionlldbnode-jsjavascriptdebugging
ubiquitous-factory/quadit
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
A gitops tool to deploy quadlets in podman
Contributions:4 releases, 42 reviews, 59 PRs in 1 year 2 months
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