Arthur Maltson
Sr. Distinguished Engineer (Sr. Director) at Capital One
Collingwood, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolArthur Maltson is a Sr. Distinguished Engineer and developer-experience leader with 15+ years building CI/CD platforms, automation, and high-performing teams at scale, currently leading developer productivity initiatives at Capital One. He specializes in rooting out organizational “sludge” and delivering pragmatic, long-lived tooling across the stack—from infrastructure and REST APIs to rich front-ends—while advocating rigorous code quality, testing, and reviews. A proven rescuer in high-pressure situations, he has productionized hackathon prototypes (including a Lambda-based job that printed 2M vouchers in 15 minutes) and led rapid recoveries of critical systems. Arthur is an active open-source contributor with improvements in widely used projects like ohmyzsh and hubot-scripts, reflecting a focus on tooling reliability in corporate environments. He mentors engineers at all levels, runs bootcamps and public-speaking programs, and combines deep hands-on craft with enterprise architectural insight. Based in Collingwood, Ontario, he balances DevOps by day with “DadOps” at night, bringing a practical, people-first approach to technical change.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at University of Toronto - Innis College
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Github Skills (39)
git10
hubot10
coffeescript10
scripting10
configuration-management10
ruby10
automation10
script10
sh10
automations10
shell10
zsh10
cli10
javascript9
terminal-application9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh
Apr 2011 - Oct 2021
🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,400+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:6 commits, 1 PR in 10 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Arthur primarily focused on enhancing the installation and configuration process of Oh My Zsh. Their contributions include making the `chsh` command more reliable and updating the installation script to use HTTPS for cloning the repository, improving compatibility with corporate environments. The user also modified the key bindings to ensure proper functionality of the delete key and added bindings for the Gnome terminal. They integrated support for `mvnw` in multi-module projects, improving the functionality of the maven plugin.
oh-my-zsh-pluginpythonrails-pluginszsh-configurationauto-update
github/hubot-scripts
Mar 2012 - Jan 2013
DEPRECATED, see https://github.com/github/hubot-scripts/issues/1113 for details - optional scripts for hubot, opt in via hubot-scripts.json
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Arthur primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the factoid feature within the Hubot script. Their contributions included creating initial in-memory factoids, storing factoids in the Hubot brain for persistence, refactoring the code for improved efficiency with a single hear, and adding support for the ~tell and ~~ shortcuts. The user also updated GitHub Enterprise support for existing scripts like github-activity, github-commit-link, github-commiters, github-issue-link, and github-issues, demonstrating a focus on code maintenance and enhancements.
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