Marcus Crane
Lead Platform Engineer
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolMarcus Crane is a Lead Platform Engineer based in Auckland with 10 years of SRE and platform experience across AWS and Azure, and hands-on fluency in Python, Go and JavaScript. He balances pragmatic engineering with a clear sense of when code or tooling is the right solution, and has moved from hands-on SRE work to leading platform initiatives at Halter after senior roles at Lightspeed and Xero. Marcus has driven major cluster expansions, incident management tooling and SLO adoption at enterprise scale, and contributed reliability fixes to Backstage’s scaffolder to handle broken symlinks—improving developer portal robustness. He pairs platform architecture with mentorship and operational readiness, having run workshops and onboarded many SREs. Known for practical open-source contributions and custom integrations (Netbox, Azure AD), he favors durable, maintainable solutions over novelty.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Full-stack Development, Full-stack Development at Enspiral Dev Academy
English
Stackoverflow
35reputation
471reached
1answer
3questions
Github Skills (20)
scaffolding10
filesystem10
serializable10
serializer10
typescript10
file-operations10
serialization10
deserialization10
backstage10
fileio10
typescript-types10
nodejs10
typescripts10
github-ci9
githubaction-workflow9
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
backstage/backstage
Mar 2022 - Sep 2022
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 23 commits, 9 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Marcus primarily contributed to the Backstage project by enhancing the scaffolding backend functionality. They addressed issues related to broken symbolic links, ensuring proper handling during file serialization and deserialization within the Scaffolder backend. Additionally, the user extended the GitHub pull request action to correctly handle broken symlinks. These changes reflect improvements to the reliability and robustness of the Backstage's core features.
backstageinfrastructuredxdeveloper-experiencedeveloper-portal
marcus-crane/khinsider
Mar 2018 - Dec 2024
A khinsider downloader written in Go
Contributions:26 releases, 15 reviews, 22 PRs in 6 years 10 months
gogolangmusicvideogamessoundtrack
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