Tony Watson
Software Engineer at InteractiveBlue
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTony Watson is a pragmatic software engineer with 13+ years of hands-on experience building and operating production systems, best known for designing and managing the Better Business Bureau’s ScamTracker which aggregates over 70,000 international reports. He combines back-end and DevOps skills—demonstrated by contributions to well-known projects like google/capirca—with an entrepreneurial streak evidenced by co-founding and scaling a scooter-charging business that handled 300+ scooters nightly. Autodidactic and detail-oriented, Tony has a track record of turning real-world problems into reliable software and operational workflows. A father of four who plans to grow a small team and launch a children’s coding camp, he balances long-term product vision with day-to-day delivery.
13 years of coding experience
San José State UniversityHigh School, High School at Bellarmine College Preparatory
English
Github Skills (7)
acl10
python10
iptables10
unit-test9
git5
devops4
cicd3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
google/capirca
Dec 2012 - Jul 2017
Multi-platform ACL generation system
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:10 commits, 5 PRs, 2 comments in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Tony contributed to the project by fixing bugs and implementing features related to ACL generation for different platforms. They improved the iptables policies by adding newlines for proper functionality. Additionally, they worked on enhancing the Juniper SRX configuration, specifically addressing issues related to address exclusions and forwarding class configurations. They also implemented fixes to ensure the logging handles are closed appropriately, thereby improving the reliability of the overall system.
netmikonetwork-automationtraceroutemulti-platformnetwork-programming
pw378/capirca
Mar 2017 - Dec 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 8 months
multi-platformaclsystem-generationyaml
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