Tony Quilkey
Senior Software Architect Engineer at Glow
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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SeniorTony Quilkey is a Senior Software Architect/Engineer based in Sydney with 15+ years building scalable web platforms and leading architecture for high-traffic products. He currently shapes Glow, a global consumer-research platform used to reach over 100M people, combining product-focused engineering with robust infrastructure design. Tony has deep PHP/Symfony expertise from rebuilding large sites at News Corp and other enterprises, including Redis-backed ORMs, AWS deployments and custom Ansible automation. An early open-source contributor since 2001, he enhanced the widely used php-pm project to better integrate Symfony and Laravel via an HttpKernel bridge and improved configuration ergonomics. He balances hands-on development, DevOps and system design—often solving non-obvious scaling and integration challenges across CMS, APIs and caching layers. Colleagues rely on him to turn complex requirements into maintainable, production-ready systems.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (10)
php10
symfony10
reactphp10
symfony-ux10
cli9
command-line9
command-line-interface9
application-server8
laravel-mix8
laravel8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
php-pm/php-pm
Mar 2014 - Mar 2014
PPM is a process manager, supercharger and load balancer for modern PHP applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 5 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Tony primarily focused on enhancing the PHP-PM project by adding features and improving the server's configuration. Their contributions include the ability to configure the server via a config file, and modifying the command line arguments for ease of use. They also introduced the support for the HttpKernel bridge, allowing for integration with Symfony applications and the Laravel framework.
ppmphpphp-applicationsmodern-phppsr7
trq/Gen
Sep 2012 - Oct 2013
Contributions:88 commits in 1 year 1 month
static-sitetwigphpsite-generatorstatic-site-generator
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