Tony Perkins
Systems Developer at Capella University
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTony Perkins is a seasoned systems developer with 15+ years of experience designing and shipping reliable software for enterprise and educational environments, including a long tenure at IBM driving automation and self-healing capabilities for WebSphere and Domino on IBM i. Based in Minneapolis, he combines deep hands-on skills across Java, C/C++, web technologies and databases with practical leadership from design through deployment, often simplifying complex installations into browser-driven wizards that reduced manual steps dramatically. He contributes to notable open-source work such as enhancements to the WebPageTest project—adding monitoring, shared-folder support and robust job/result handling—reflecting a strong grasp of backend data and job processing. Comfortable across legacy platforms (AS/400, Lotus Domino) and modern stacks (Linux, MySQL, web apps), he thrives on systems-level problem solving and performance tuning. Equally at home mentoring offshore QA and collaborating with operations, he brings a pragmatic, automation-first approach that cuts operational costs and downtime. Above the code, he’s an avid tinkerer who applies hobbyist curiosity—home automation and continuous tinkering—to drive practical improvements in production systems.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Iowa State University
Github Skills (7)
doctrine10
php10
back-end-development10
database9
database-api9
databases9
sql8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
catchpoint/WebPageTest
Mar 2011 - Feb 2012
Official repository for WebPageTest
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:161 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Tony made significant updates to the `WebPageTest` repository, focusing on adding and improving monitoring features. They implemented functionality for shared folders and run rate information. The user also addressed several bugs related to folder IDs and results, demonstrating a strong understanding of the project's data management and job processing infrastructure. Furthermore, the user modified several files in the `www/wptmonitor` directory.
javascriptwebpagetest
maverick1995/webpagetest
Mar 2011 - Feb 2012
Contributions:160 commits in 11 months
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