Antony Messerli
Principal Engineer, Platform Engineering
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarAntony Messerli is a Principal Engineer focused on platform and infrastructure engineering with over two decades of experience building enterprise-scale systems, currently leading platform efforts at H-E-B from San Antonio. He spent 18+ years at Rackspace across roles from datacenter technician to principal engineer, gaining deep hands-on expertise in public, private, and hybrid cloud operations and automation. Antony combines systems-level thinking with pragmatic DevOps practice—improving build and deployment pipelines, netboot/iPXE boot workflows, and EFI/legacy image automation as lead contributor to the popular netboot.xyz project. Known informally as an "Infrastructure Automator," he bridges automation, cloud architecture, and release engineering to move complex platforms into production reliably. He has served on the Linux Foundation Xen Project advisory board, reflecting his engagement with upstream open-source infrastructure communities. Colleagues rely on him for solving low-level boot, image, and deployment challenges that most platform teams never surface.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
English
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Github Skills (12)
bootloader10
script10
bash10
ipxe10
devops10
build-automation10
boot10
cicd10
networking9
githubaction-workflow9
github-ci9
versioning9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
netbootxyz/netboot.xyz
Aug 2015 - Jan 2023
Your favorite operating systems in one place. A network-based bootable operating system installer based on iPXE.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 56 reviews, 1535 commits in 7 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Antony's contributions focused on improving the netboot.xyz project's build and deployment processes. They updated the release preparation script, adding functionality for generating checksums for iPXE bootloaders and creating both legacy and EFI builds. They also implemented support for building EFI images, added code for generating code for testing new branches, and made improvements to the directory structure and dependencies.
operating-systemspxebootbiosmenubootloader
antonym/ipxe
Mar 2017 - Apr 2022
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
bootloaderipxegit-tree
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