Hi! I'm Anthony, a full stack software engineer with a background in plant biology and biochemistry. I'm enthusiastic about creating dynamic and interactive applications and evolving them to fit the needs and desires of end users. I love contributing to team collaboration and delivering impactful user experiences.

2020 — NowAppleFull Stack Software Engineer

2020 — Now

San Francisco Bay Area

Developed and maintained hundreds of 3rd-party API integrations with our platform, allowing the seamless interconnection of data to automatically flow between over 90 services and applications

Spearheaded the POC project of automating the import of SIS data to Apple School Manager via SFTP connection, leading to a new product offering and acquisition of hundreds of new customers

Demoed for, onboarded, and provided engineering support to numerous school district administrators as part of the ASM automation project, leading to an increase in product sales and customer retention

2020 — NowClarisFull Stack Software Engineer

2020 — Now

San Francisco Bay Area

Claris, an Apple company, is a global leader in low-code solution platforms

Full Stack Web Developer on Claris Connect

2019 — 2020Personal ProjectsFull Stack Software Engineer - Reviews List Microservice for Lodging and Hotel Web Application

2019 — 2020

React, Styled-Components, Node.js, Express, MySQL, Redis, Jest, Enzyme, AWS EC2, Docker, Webpack, Babel, CircleCI

Optimized page load speeds by identifying bottlenecks with Google PageSpeed Insights analytics and enabling Express compression middleware, leading to a PageSpeed score of 96

Enabled data caching utilizing Redis with LRU eviction policy to improve page performance and load speeds

Containerized microservice with Docker for runtime consistency and ease of deployment on AWS EC2 t2.micro instance, adhering to microservice architecture design

Implemented pagination in React to promote a streamlined UI and UX across 100+ different listings with varying amounts of reviews

Applied TDD practices, achieving >90% code coverage with Jest and Enzyme unit and integration tests

2019 — 2020Personal ProjectsBack End Software Engineer - System Design of Photo Gallery Microservice

2019 — 2020

Node.js, Express, PostgreSQL, New Relic, Loader.io, Artillery.io, Postman, AWS EC2, NGINX, Trello

Horizontally scaled back end infrastructure by directing web traffic through an NGINX load balancer and across 4 EC2 server instances, increasing the maximum number of requests per second (RPS) handled from 250 to 1000

Optimized read query times for PostgreSQL database holding 100+ million records via B-tree indexing, reducing overall latency from over 120 sec to under 2 ms

Stress tested with Loader.io and analyzed server performance metrics with New Relic, pinpointing bottlenecks affecting RPS, latency, and error rates

2019 — 2020Personal ProjectsFull Stack Software Engineer - PACK RAT | Magic: The Gathering Card Collection Tracker

2019 — 2020

React, React Hooks, React Context API, Styled-Components, Node.js, Express, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS EC2, Webpack, Babel

Designed a modular and user-friendly front end with React for component separation and conditional rendering

Handled global application state with React Hooks and Context API, leading to a simpler state management system

Implemented RESTful API routes in Express to bridge data communication between client and Postgres database

Education

2019

Hack Reactor

Advanced Software Engineering Immersive Bootcamp

2019

2013 — 2017

University of California, Davis

Bachelor of Science

2013 — 2017

Experience+

Education

Advanced Software Engineering Immersive Bootcamp

Bachelor of Science