Summary
David Antonini is a Senior Software DevOps Engineer and consultant with eight years of experience designing and migrating legacy systems to cloud-native infrastructure while leading engineering teams to resolve outages and deliver pragmatic architectural solutions. Grounded in healthcare and education, he blends strong Python and automation skills (SaltStack, Kubernetes, PyScript) with hands-on incident response, post-mortems, and client-facing prioritization. He’s built novel proof-of-concept tooling and sophisticated Python-driven Salt state generation that tie YAML, Jinja, and regex into repeatable deployments. A committed lifelong learner and volunteer conference organizer for PyTexas, he applies technology to public health and education initiatives and balances professional work with homeschooling and community leadership. Notably, his background as a nursing assistant informs a practical, stakeholder-focused approach to system reliability and disaster recovery planning.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Physics, History, Physics, History at The University of Western Australia
Google IT Automation with Python Professional Certificate, Computer Programming, Specific Applications, A, Google IT Automation with Python Professional Certificate, Computer Programming, Specific Applications, A at Coursera
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Kingsway Christian College
Communications and Cultural Studies, Art, Communications and Cultural Studies, Art at Curtin University