Rene Cunningham
Staff Engineer at Okta
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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RockstarRene Cunningham is a Staff Engineer based in Melbourne with 14 years of experience building and operating large-scale identity and infrastructure systems. He has driven engineering work at Okta and Auth0 following a long tenure at The Linux Foundation, blending deep Linux/sysadmin roots with modern cloud and identity-platform engineering. Known for bridging hands-on systems reliability with platform architecture, Rene brings practical expertise in scaling secure authentication services for global users. His career arc—from senior Linux roles at IBM and DCLabs to leadership positions in identity engineering—signals a strong foundation in low-level systems paired with product-focused platform development. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that balance operational resilience and developer velocity.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (125)
terraform10
terraform-provider10
aws10
linux9
sdk9
golang9
cli9
testing9
python9
ansible-role9
auth9
firefly9
jenkins9
continuous-integration9
bitbucket-server9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
rene00/wtz
Aug 2020 - Feb 2021
A small command line tool that shows times in timezones you're interested in
Contributions:40 commits, 18 PRs, 28 pushes in 5 months
command-line-tool
rene00/banalcow
Oct 2017 - Mar 2022
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
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