Paul Annesley
Principal Engineer at Buildkite
Adelaide, South Australia
Summary
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SeniorPaul Annesley is a Principal Engineer based in Adelaide with 11 years of experience building resilient, distributed systems and leading SRE and engineering teams. He has a long history at Buildkite—rising from SRE leadership to Head of Engineering and now Principal Engineer—where he also contributes technical documentation to the widely used buildkite/docs repository. Paul combines hands-on engineering (from founding Broadstack and early work at 99designs to modernizing deployments with Docker) with strategic leadership across observability, reliability and platform engineering. He’s comfortable across the stack, from infrastructure and deployment automation to API design and developer experience. Colleagues rely on him to translate operational complexity into clear documentation and practical tooling. Outside of work he notes a playful interest in building kites, hinting at a maker’s curiosity that informs his pragmatic, experimental approach to engineering.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (19)
technical-writing10
api-documentation10
pipe10
pipeline10
documentation10
utf9
javascript9
wpgraphql9
ruby9
forms9
wordpress-graphql9
rest-api9
graphql9
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Github contributions (5)
buildkite/docs
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
The source files for the Buildkite documentation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:36 reviews, 23 commits, 35 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to the Buildkite documentation repository, focusing on clarifying existing content and adding new information across various sections. Their work involved updates to agent configuration, pipeline management, and API documentation. The contributions included fixing typos, adding examples, clarifying existing information, and adding new build states and GraphQL examples, demonstrating a focus on improving the clarity and accuracy of the documentation.
buildkite-documentationbuildkitesource-files
buildkite-plugins/gcp-workload-identity-federation-buildkite-plugin
Apr 2023 - Oct 2024
💨 Assume a Google Cloud service account using workload identity federation
Contributions:4 releases, 15 reviews, 10 PRs in 1 year 6 months
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