Tony Breckner
Senior Backend Developer at Practice Ignition
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolTony Breckner is a Senior Backend Developer based in Sydney with 12 years of experience building web platforms and rich internet applications using Phoenix/Elixir and Ruby on Rails. He blends backend systems work—migrations from legacy PHP to modern GraphQL/Phoenix architectures—with a strong frontend sensibility in JavaScript, React/TypeScript and Canvas-based UIs. At Expert360 and Insured By Us he led major rewrites and platform modernisations, including invoicing, freelancer management and partner pricing engines, and at the ABC delivered interactive eCommerce and game-like experiences. Comfortable across the full stack, Tony also contributes to open-source Rails projects (adding archival and pagination fixes to a popular blogging engine) and often pairs product-focused engineering with operational ownership. His background in psychology and information systems gives him a pragmatic approach to user flows and system design.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
International School ManilaMSc, Information Systems and Technology, MSc, Information Systems and Technology at City University, LondonBSc, Psychology, BSc, Psychology at Stirling University, Scotland
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Github Skills (14)
rspec10
ruby-rails10
rails10
blog-engine10
ruby10
javascript9
jasmine9
css9
html8
pagination7
git6
jquery6
forms6
post6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jipiboily/monologue
Oct 2013 - May 2014
Monologue is a basic blogging engine. It is a Rails mountable engine you can mount in your already existing Rails app, or a in a new one! Enjoy.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 1 comment in 6 months
Contributions summary:Tony implemented archive functionality within the blogging engine, adding features for displaying posts by year and month. They modified the database schema, views, controllers, and stylesheets to support the archive feature. The user also created request and controller specs to test the archive functionality and address a pagination bug.
ruby-on-railsrails-appmountrailsruby
ignitionapp/client_success
Mar 2020 - Feb 2021
An unofficial Ruby wrapper for ClientSuccess's REST API
Contributions:25 PRs, 23 pushes, 8 branches in 11 months
api-clientapiruby-wrapperrubynetsuite
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