Tony Air is a founder and hands-on full-stack web developer with 13 years of experience building and running web businesses from Novosibirsk. He founded New Castle Ltd in 2010 after senior development and design roles at LuxMedia and GSM-Service, bringing together PHP backend expertise, product design sensibility, and mathematical rigor from NSU. Tony contributes to open-source projects like Silverstripe Framework, where he fixed editor, ImageMagick, and JavaScript path bugs—demonstrating attention to both UX and low-level integration issues. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs system administration and deployment experience with practical frontend fixes and backend resilience. Notably, his problem-solving extends beyond code: he’s rebuilt cars and even built his own house, reflecting a maker’s approach to engineering and operations. He combines entrepreneurial leadership with steady, detail-oriented engineering to ship reliable web systems.
Silverstripe Framework, the MVC framework that powers Silverstripe CMS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 22 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Tony primarily contributed to bug fixes within the Silverstripe Framework. They addressed issues related to the HTML editor, including tab functionality and URL insertion. Furthermore, they corrected a resize issue in the ImageMagick backend and fixed a typo in the File class. Finally, the user added trim() to the decodePath function in a JavaScript file to correct an onDemand plugin issue.
Contributions:3 releases, 118 pushes, 50 branches in 6 months
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