Antony Stubbs
Founder at Stealth Mode B2C AI Startup
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolAntony Stubbs is a founder and seasoned principal engineer with 17 years of experience building scalable, real-time and distributed systems across industries including telecommunications, logistics, TV media and education. He spent several years shaping Kafka-based streaming solutions and customer innovation at Confluent, and now leads a stealth B2C AI startup from Auckland. Antony combines deep Java ecosystem expertise with hands-on work in Python, Docker, AWS and DevOps automation, and has a long history of driving engineering productivity and architecture improvements at companies from Knewton to IBM. A committed open-source contributor, he has revived and maintained projects like Spring Modules and submitted numerous patches across major libraries and frameworks. His background—born of early QBasic tinkering, honed with a first-class Computer Science degree from the University of Auckland, and broadened by stints in the Netherlands, Ukraine and New York—gives him a pragmatic, global perspective on engineering and team-building. Colleagues describe him as a technical mentor who blends prototyping agility with production-grade reliability.
18 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons 1) Computer Science, BSc (Hons 1) Computer Science at The University of Auckland
English
Stackoverflow
13,407reputation
5.1mreached
60answers
8questions
version-control
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solr
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Github Skills (200)
testing10
docbook10
integration-testing10
home-automation10
kafka-consumer10
spring-modules10
unit-testing10
asciidoctor10
fluentassertions10
junit-test10
messaging10
python10
assertion-framework10
queuing10
junit10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
astubbs/cp-cluster-multi-region-terraform
Feb 2017 - Aug 2019
Contributions:30 commits, 12 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 6 months
astubbs/kafka
Nov 2016 - May 2022
Mirror of Apache Kafka
Contributions:54 pushes, 16 branches in 5 years 6 months
kafka-streamsapache-kafkasinkstreamsapache
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