Rob Thomas
Director at AussieVoIP
Queensland, Australia
Summary
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RockstarRob Thomas is a director and seasoned DevOps-focused software leader with 20 years building resilient VoIP and infrastructure systems, best known as the creator of FreePBX. He bridges networking, operations, and development to streamline cross-functional workflows and has built fault-tolerant VoIP services from the ground up at AussieVoIP. A pragmatic proponent of microservices, containers, Kubernetes, VMware and AWS, he runs hands-on Linux-from-scratch events to deepen engineers’ systems knowledge across SystemD and init worlds. His open-source contributions include back-end work on notable projects such as the Fuel PHP core, demonstrating attention to security and maintainability. Based in Queensland and intentionally location-stable, he combines founder-level ownership with day-to-day engineering craft. Colleagues know him as a practical nerd who turns telephony passion into production-grade platforms.
20 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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docker-compose
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Github Skills (15)
php10
fuelphp10
cryptography10
fuel10
autoload9
docker9
docker-compose9
docker-swarm-mode6
e-mail6
ip6
tar6
eml6
phar6
cidr6
docker-swarm6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
fuel/core
Jul 2014 - Dec 2014
Fuel PHP Framework - The core of the Fuel v1 framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Rob primarily contributed to the core PHP framework, as indicated by the file paths and commit messages. Their work involved updates and fixes to the `phpseclib` library, suggesting a focus on security and cryptography aspects of the framework. Further contributions include namespace adjustments and removal of manual loading for better autoloader integration, improving code maintainability.
phpframeworkfuelphpfuel-v1
xrobau/vim
Jul 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
neovimdirectoryvim
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