Tony Sun
Network And Security Consultant at Telstra
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolTony Sun is a seasoned Network and Security Consultant based in Sydney with over 20 years of hands-on experience and more than a decade supporting major financial institutions like Westpac and CBA. He designs and implements complex datacentre and branch networks—spanning Cisco Nexus/Catalyst, Juniper, Check Point, F5 and SD‑WAN—and leads migrations, firewall consolidations and virtualised fabric rollouts. Comfortable both as a technical lead and an implementer, he automates repeatable tasks with Ansible, Python and shell to reduce risk and accelerate large-scale upgrades. Tony also contributes to open-source infrastructure code, including substantive backend and database fixes to the apache/couchdb project, showing his comfort with low-level systems and concurrency issues. Known for methodical, by‑the‑book delivery and resilience under pressure, he pairs pragmatic engineering with strong cross-vendor integration experience.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Operation and Application, Information Technology, Bachelor of Computer Operation and Application, Information Technology at Zhengzhou University
English
Github Skills (5)
databases10
couchdb10
erlang10
database10
big-data9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
apache/couchdb
Apr 2014 - May 2022
Seamless multi-master syncing database with an intuitive HTTP/JSON API, designed for reliability
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:25 reviews, 66 commits, 72 PRs in 8 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Tony primarily contributed to the `apache/couchdb` repository by modifying Erlang code related to database internals and Mango query functionality. Their work involved improving the handling of external sizes of documents, modifying index selection, and addressing issues related to empty queries and array-based operators within the Mango query engine. Additionally, the user addressed a race condition within the Smoosh compactor and contributed to the blacklisting of indexes and added metrics.
nosql-databaseintuitivejson-apierlangnetwork-client
cloudant-labs/search3-erl
Jul 2019 - Mar 2020
The Erlang components of the new Search 3 platform
Contributions:1 release, 34 PRs, 65 pushes in 8 months
erlangsearch
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