Rhys Madigan
Platform Engineer
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolRhys Madigan is a Platform Engineer based in Sydney with eight years of experience designing and improving build and release infrastructure across enterprise and startup environments. He has a long tenure at Accenture progressing from Technical Analyst to Manager, and now applies that delivery and systems integration experience at SourseAI. Hands-on contributions to the widely used Pants build system show his focus on developer experience—adding macOS AWS/GCP warnings, richer test output, and flexible Docker image build options to streamline CI/CD. Trained as a mechanical engineer with first-class honours alongside a politics BA, he brings analytical rigor and a systems-thinking approach to platform problems. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who bridges operational needs and developer workflows to reduce friction in shipping software.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) and Bachelor of Arts (Politics), Mechanical Engineering, Honours (First Class), Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) and Bachelor of Arts (Politics), Mechanical Engineering, Honours (First Class) at University of Adelaide
French, Finnish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
build-system10
docker10
python10
dockers10
aws-lambda9
build-tools8
test-automation7
jenkins6
amazon-eks6
amazon-emr6
pytest6
ssh-keys6
jenkins-pipeline6
ssh6
ubuntu6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
pantsbuild/pants
Sep 2021 - Dec 2022
The Pants Build System
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:31 reviews, 4 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Rhys's commits primarily focus on enhancing the build system and related tooling within the Pants build system. They added warnings related to build issues on macOS for AWS Lambdas and Google Cloud Functions and implemented features to improve test output by including duration and cache source. Furthermore, the user has contributed to docker image building, adding several new options. These contributions indicate a focus on improving the build and release process.
pythonprotobufaws-lambdapantsshell
riisi/pants
Sep 2021 - Mar 2025
The Pants Build System
Contributions:77 pushes, 15 branches in 3 years 7 months
pantsbuild-system
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