# Anthony Washington > Staff Software Engineer @ Gusto | Ex: Hyphen, Samsara and Intel Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/anthonywashington ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Gusto Jan 2024 – Present | Atlanta, Georgia, United States Gusto is a leading cloud software platform that simplifies payroll, benefits, and HR administration for over 300,000 startups and small businesses. We empower companies to manage their people and resources efficiently, allowing them to focus on what they do best. 🚀 ### Software Engineer Manager, Product @ Hyphen Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Atlanta, Georgia, United States My responsibilities included leading a team of five Software Engineers (one Staff, three Seniors, and one Mid-level) in the development and launch of customer-facing features for our Makeline. As well, lead the expansion of our product's point-of-sale integrations with key enterprise platforms (ie. Toast, NCR, etc.) and customers by defining APIs, data exchange and workflow strategies. When not leading initiatives, I actively collaborated across various cross-functional teams, including engineering, product, operations, culinary, and design. I provided valuable feedback through Product Requirement Documents (PRD) and Figma reviews to help define user-centric features. ### Founding Senior Software Engineer @ Hyphen Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Atlanta, Georgia, United States We're using software and IOT robotics to automate the preparation of bowls and salads! 🥗 - 1st Senior Software Engineer and product team lead 💻👨🏽 - Architected and developed zero-to-one web applications (React, Redux, GQL, AWS) to streamline data management and drive successful customer pilots from seed to $25M+ Series A. - Architected and developed zero-to-one POS integration with Toast using AWS Step Functions, DynamoDB, S3, and IoT Core, paving the way for enterprise scaling. - Played a key role in team growth, participating in 29 interviews which contributed to the onboarding of 77% of the current SWE team. - Passionate about teaching, streamlined the new engineers' onboarding by crafting a structured process with architecture deep dives, environment setup guidance, tailored starter tasks, and hands-on mentorship. - Launched and hosted bi-weekly "Team Demos" to celebrate the Software Engineering team's progress and foster feedback and recognition to boost engagement. ### Software Engineer IV @ Samsara Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Atlanta, Georgia, United States Samsara uses IOT sensors and data to increase the efficiency, safety, and sustainability of the transportation operations that power our economy. - Architected and built 10+ full-stack web, mobile, and API features using React, React Native, Redux, GraphQL, Golang, gRPC, MySQL, and AWS to streamline dispatchers and driver communication through digital documents and SMS. - Built 64% of the Q1 and Q2 2020 OKR features, resulting in 2 customer commits and 5 OKRs behind achieved. - Led the team with 96 pull request reviews, playing a pivotal role in focusing on code precision and high quality. - Achieved a 33% higher pull request velocity compared to the team average. - Developed 9 Tableau dashboards with a Databricks integration, providing the product team insights on document feature usage and media upload observability. - Led developer on a team of 5 for a Driver Etiquette hackathon project, resulting in the best company inclusion award and the successful filing of a patent. (link attached below) - Recognized for embodying the company's core value of “Build for the Long Term” in the first year of the internal awards program. (see attached image) *Technologies* Development: React, TypeScript, GraphQL, Golang, AWS, MySQL and Github Monitoring: Datadog, CloudWatch, BigQuery, Databricks, Sentry, and Buildkite ### A* Member @ /dev/color Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Atlanta, Georgia, United States The A* Program empowers software engineers to leverage one another’s experiences, insights, and support to achieve ambitious goals. ### Cloud Software Engineer II @ Intel Corporation Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Hillsboro, Oregon - Implemented the UI and API's for the authentication portal to enable secure and effective database management using Reactjs and Nodejs. - Learned Golang to accelerate the completion of the CLI tool to make scripting and database information retrieval faster. - Designed wireframes and mock-ups using Sketch Design tool to eliminate content discovery complexity. Software Tools: MonogoDB, OpenStack Keystone, Kubernetes Team Collaboration: Agile Methodology, Slack, Jira, Gerrit Code Review ### Cloud Software Engineer @ Intel Corporation Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Antonio, Texas Area - Used Python to build OpenStack Keystone in-code solution for RBAC rule registration, which eliminated standard role management for operators. - Leveraged Python to parse, aggregate and serialize duration data during the rolling upgrades of OpenStack, resulting in a Kibana visualization dashboard. - Created a testing plan to identify 30 API validation scenarios to execute during the rolling upgrades of OpenStack Cinder to measure service uptime and downtime. Software Tools: Jenkins, Kibana, ElasticSearch Team Collaboration: Agile Methodology, Slack, Trello, Jira, Gerrit Code Review ### Content Creator @ YouTube Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 Bringing together my passions for teaching others and programming to create HOW-TO videos in order to increase the number of Software Engineers. So far, I have 300 subscribers and 29k+ views. ### iOS App Developer @ Self Employed Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 Built the Tuskegee University iOS application using Swift, Nodejs and MongoDB to aggregate campus information for students. To date, over 350 downloads and save $300 annually due to a backend infrastructure migration from AWS to Google Firebase. Tools: Xcode, Github, Sketch Design Tool ### Teacher Assistant @ Tuskegee University Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | Tuskegee University Lead class labs and held after hour tutorial sessions for over 30+ Computer Science students weekly. The Computer Science department courses taught were: Data Structures, Algorithms, Visual Basic, Java and C++ Programming. ### ISS Software Engineer @ Boeing Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Houston, Texas Area ## Education ### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science Tuskegee University Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/antdwash - Website: https://antdwash.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/anthonywashington JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/anthonywashington/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22