Toni Spets
Backend Wrangler at Beeper
Turku Metropolitan Area Finland
Summary
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RockstarToni Spets is a seasoned backend and cloud engineer with 17 years of experience building resilient infrastructure, automation, and containerized deployments across AWS, GCP, Azure and OpenStack. Currently working on internal tooling at Automattic/Beeper, he blends hands-on systems work—Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, CI/CD—with deep Linux, networking and security expertise. Toni is an active open-source contributor (notably maintaining KeePassXC SSH integration and contributing to projects like litestream and Conky) and has a track record of practical reliability improvements such as client-side encryption and optimized build pipelines. He excels at scaling problems, from database durability and monitoring to ERP/CRM integrations and VPN solutions. Based in the Turku metro area, he pairs technical sales and architecture experience with a pragmatic focus on low-level application and infrastructure observability.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Finnish, English
Github Skills (33)
c-language10
sqlite10
debian10
scripting10
it-security10
system-monitoring10
security10
lua10
script10
go10
password-manager10
amazon-s310
cryptography10
build-automation10
aws-s310
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
debian-pi/raspbian-ua-netinst
Jul 2013 - Apr 2014
Raspbian (minimal) unattended netinstaller
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:70 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Toni primarily focused on automating the build and deployment process for the Raspbian netinstaller. They improved the bootstrap script, added versioning and build date features, and refactored the build system for better efficiency. Furthermore, the user implemented a card image generation script and modified the build process to prevent unnecessary file compression.
raspberry-piraspbianarmbiandebian-linuxdebian
keepassxreboot/keepassxc
Feb 2022 - Feb 2022
KeePassXC is a cross-platform community-driven port of the Windows application “Keepass Password Safe”.
Role in this project:Backend & Security Engineer
Backend & Security EngineerContributions:38 reviews, 2 commits, 56 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Toni contributed to KeePassXC, a password manager, by addressing security vulnerabilities and implementing new features related to security. They fixed a search information leak by modifying the search functionality and database locking. The user added a copy button to the password generator for easier usability. They also introduced support for AES-256-CTR mode, and added support for SSH agent key management, including handling of various key types and relative path resolution.
yubikeywindows-10community-drivenpasswordmacos
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