Sam Anthony

€120

Sam Anthony

Software Developer

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Bio

Sam has 20 years of experience in web development and is passionate about creating clean and maintainable code. His main forte is back-end development and DevOps, and cloud infrastructure. Sam has experience working with a corporate team in London to working independently on his startup in a home office.

TomplayPHP, AWS ELB, Amazon S3 (AWS S3)Social Snowball IO LLCPHP, Git, Shopify API, CircleCI, SQL, Laravel

Experience

• PHP – 16 years
• DevOps – 4 years
• Docker – 4 years
• Amazon Web Services (AWS) – 4 years
• Laravel – 3 years
• GitHub Actions – 3 years
• Terraform – 2 years
• Serverless – 2 years

Work Experience

Head of DevOps & Infrastructure

2023 – 2026

Zitcha

• Collaborated closely with engineering teams across the PHP-based SaaS application to improve deployment processes, stability, and operational visibility.
• Owned the end-to-end AWS infrastructure supporting production and non-production environments.
• Designed and delivered new infrastructure capabilities as the platform evolved (scaling, monitoring, security, deployment workflows).
• Built and maintained Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform to standardise and automate cloud resources.
• Developed and maintained CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions to support rapid, safe deployments.
• Implemented operational best practices around availability, incident response, and environment consistency.

Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Terraform, PHP, GitHub

DevOps Engineer | PHP Developer

2021 – 2022

Tomplay

• Contracted to migrate the entire PHP back-end application of Tomplay to a new AWS Infrastructure.
• Refactoring of existing PHP codebase to enable it to utilise Amazon S3, AWS ELB, and AWS Secrets manager.
• Implemented a modern deployment strategy with AWS CodeBuild/CodeDeploy.
• Utilised various DevOps tools to perform a zero-downtime migration to the new AWS Account.
• Advise developers on preparing application code for AWS ALB.

Technologies: PHP, AWS ELB, Amazon S3 (AWS S3)

CTO for Shopify App

2021 – 2021

Social Snowball IO LLC

• Modernized the engineering approach of a small team to incorporate automated testing and better adherence to coding standards.
• Stabilized existing projects and eliminated many bugs and vulnerabilities.
• Mentored junior and mid-level developers. Assisted in the recruitment of new developers.

Technologies: PHP, Git, Shopify API, CircleCI, SQL, Laravel

Lead Developer for an Accounting and Payment SaaS Platform

2017 – 2019

Rentpost

• Modernized an existing SaaS platform to a REST API architecture.
• Enhanced an existing application with AWS Services.
• Derived microservices from a large monolithic application.
• Optimized an existing codebase and implemented unit testing.

Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), PHP

Lead Developer

2016 – 2017

Hauskontor.de

• Helped coordinate a small team of developers.
• Architected the application.
• Worked in a fast-paced, ambitious startup environment.

Technologies: Ansible

Lead Developer

2016 – 2016

Sports Standardized Athletic Testing

• Build the entire MVP from the ground up with Symfony 3.
• Owned the entire tech stack from planning to DevOps and development.
• Worked with the client to deliver the MVP in timely fashion.

Technologies: Ansible, PHP

Lead Web Developer

2012 – 2015

Vouched For

• Built the entire web application and REST API from the ground up using Symfony 2.
• Contributed to public Git projects for a prominent UK payment gateway (GoCardless).
• Mentored junior developers.
• Contributed to major decision-making regarding the platform architecture.
• Grew with the startup from the early days of just three staff members to a company which now employs over thirty people.

Technologies: Payment Gateways, Git, Doctrine 2

Founder/Developer

2010 – 2012

Realty Hub, Pty., Ltd.

• Founded Realty Hub after identifying a need for a new product in the real estate industry.
• Oversaw every aspect of software development from gathering software requirements to application development in PHP/Symfony 2.
• Consulted existing users on how to improve the platform.
• Contributed actively to non-dev aspects of the startup.

Technologies: Payment Gateways, Git, XML, jQuery, HTML, MySQL, PHP

Web Developer

2011 – 2011

Visual Domain

• Brought in as a short-term contractor to help cover a surge in work.
• Worked with the client to determine the best software solution for their situation.
• Collaborated with companies' internal developers to maintain existing coding practices and to integrate the new module with the exiting workflow.

Technologies: Ajax, jQuery, MySQL, CodeIgniter, PHP

Web Developer

2009 – 2010

MyHome Group

• Developed both internal office web applications and a public-facing real estate portal written in PHP.
• Supported applications, including a financial system for managing client debts and a system to deliver interactive real estate media (virtual tours) to clients.
• Worked alongside senior programmers but also worked on my own projects completely independently.
• Listened to the needs of non-dev staff and suggested/implemented features to streamline office operations.

Technologies: XML, Ajax, jQuery, HTML, MySQL, PHP

Web Developer

2008 – 2008

Goose Creative

• Worked as the lead programmer on a complex CMS built from the ground up.
• Introduced a better software engineering culture to the organization (version control and documentation practices).
• Coordinated work between the other PHP developer, the Flash developer, and graphic designers.
• Managed the workload between concurrent projects for a variety of clients.
• Worked within tight deadlines in the competitive digital agency industry.

Technologies: Ajax, HTML, MySQL, PHP

Junior Web Developer

2007 – 2007

AHM Australian Health Management

• Helped maintain existing components and create new website and web application features.
• Ported large portions of ASP code into the new PHP 5 platform.
• Adjusted quickly as a junior to a new corporate environment.

Technologies: JavaScript, HTML, PHP

Junior Web Developer

2006 – 2007

Freelance

• Designed the back end for small websites and web applications, including features such as CMS and eCommerce websites.
• Liaised with clients regularly about project status or improved user requirements.
• Coordinated my work with internal dev teams where appropriate.
• Networked to acquire my own clients.
• Dealt with all the challenges of being a completely independent junior developer.

Technologies: eCommerce, JavaScript, HTML, MySQL, PHP

Certifications

DECEMBER 2018 – DECEMBER 2021

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

AWS

APRIL 2018 – APRIL 2021

AWS Certified Developer Associate

AWS

Skills

Libraries/APIs

Pandas, Doctrine 2, jQuery, Shopify API

Tools

Ansible, PhpStorm, Terraform, Amazon Cognito, AWS CloudFormation, AWS IAM, RabbitMQ, Jira, Trello, Apache, Vagrant, Composer, Git, CircleCI, AWS ELB, GitHub

Languages

PHP, PHP 8, HTML, XML, Python, JavaScript, SQL

Paradigms

REST, DevOps, Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Platforms

Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Lambda, Cin7, Docker, Linux

Frameworks

Laravel, Symfony, CodeIgniter

Storage

Amazon DynamoDB, MySQL, Memcached, Amazon S3 (AWS S3)

Other

AWS Certified Developer, Serverless, GitHub Actions, eCommerce, Amazon API Gateway, Payment Gateways, System Administration, Ajax, Computer Science, Computer Engineering

Source