Robert Mcneil
Systems Engineer at Cloudflare, Inc.
Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Mcneil is a systems engineer based in Queensland, Australia with 12 years of experience building and automating cloud-native infrastructure and release pipelines. Currently at Cloudflare, he focuses on operational engineering and CI/CD improvements—his open-source contributions to the widely used cloudflared tunnel client highlight practical automation work such as macOS builds and Homebrew formula updates. He previously held senior engineering and consulting roles across 99designs, IBM, and smaller firms, giving him a strong background in system integration, security tooling, and software lifecycle processes. Comfortable bridging development and operations, he often implements secure deployment patterns (including SSH-backed CI workflows) that speed releases while reducing manual steps. Colleagues know him for pragmatic scripting and an engineer’s sense of humor—"writes code by day, writes bad code by night"—which reflects a hands-on, experimental approach to problem solving.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of IT, Software Architecture, Bachelor of IT, Software Architecture at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)
Github Skills (11)
automation10
bash10
automations10
cicd10
githubaction-workflow9
github-ci9
homebrew9
go8
dockers5
reverse-proxy5
docker5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cloudflare/cloudflared
Mar 2020 - Jul 2020
Cloudflare Tunnel client (formerly Argo Tunnel)
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits, 2 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily focuses on automating build and deployment processes for the `cloudflared` project. Their contributions include creating and modifying scripts (.teamcity/build-macos.sh and .teamcity/update-homebrew.sh) to build macOS binaries and update the Homebrew formula. They also worked on configuring the CI/CD pipeline, including pushing to a test branch and integrating SSH keys for secure deployments. The impact of their work is improved efficiency in the release process.
argo-tunnelproxycloudflarecloudflare-tunnelzero-trust-network-access
porty/porty
Jul 2020 - Feb 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
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