Tony Hansen
Software Engineer
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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RockstarTony Hansen is a seasoned software engineer with 16 years of experience spanning development, management, and open source stewardship, based in the New York City area. A long-time contributor and committer to ONAP since 2016 and an active participant in IETF standards work (notably email standards dating back to the early 1990s), he blends hands-on engineering with protocol- and security-focused standardization. He holds six patents, demonstrating a pattern of practical innovation across systems and communications. Tony contributes to popular FOSS projects—such as adding authentication and hardening server logic to Screenly/Anthias, a widely used open-source digital signage platform—reflecting his comfort with both backend code and real-world deployments. Known as a hardware hacker and standards wonk, he’s equally at home debugging server code or shaping the RFCs that underpin reliable email and application interoperability.
16 years of coding experience
Github Skills (6)
digital-signage10
user-authentication10
authentication10
back-end-development10
python10
iot8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Screenly/Anthias
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
The world's most popular open source digital signage project.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 16 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Tony implemented basic authentication for the digital signage project. This involved modifications to the server-side code (server.py) to integrate authentication checks. They also updated the settings file (settings.py) to enable user authentication and configuration. Furthermore, the user removed stylistic issues identified by a style checker.
raspberry-pipythonsignagedigital-signageiot
masinter/pdfrfc
Jun 2014 - May 2016
Contributions:46 commits, 8 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year 11 months
rfcspdfpdf-generation
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