# Charles Anim

> Senior Software Engineer, Xbox Cloud Gaming at Microsoft

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/charlesanim

I'm a Senior Front End Engineer with 10+ years building highly scalable Web apps leveraging React, Javascript & Typescript

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer, Xbox @ Microsoft
Jan 2022 – Present | Redmond, Washington, United States
- A leader and highly skilled engineer on the Xbox Cloud Gaming core team at Xbox. My team owns https://xbox.com/play and https://play.xbox.com

### Senior Software Engineer - Front End @ Wellinks
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | New Haven, Connecticut, United States
- Built several internal React apps using Typescript/Javascript and deployed them on AWS
- Lead and organize State of Engineering monthly events where team members present POCs and interesting technologies with the team with the possibility of getting them on the Product roadmap. 
- Ownership of developer tools and systems eg. Private component library hosted on NPM
- Mobile development of iOS app using Swift, SwiftUI, Combine frameworks, React Native
- Innovation leader by encouraging an atmosphere of innovation and collaboration
- Worked on a PDF generation service with a React Front end hooked up to an AWS Lambda.
- Perform code reviews to ensure a clean, testable, and quality code.
- Contribute to encouraging best practices across the team.

### Software Engineer @ Cigna
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Windsor, Connecticut
- Software Engineer on the Customer Solutions Team working on Cigna Healthcare Provider Angular SPA.
- Strong usage of JavaScript/Typescript to deliver amazing business solutions.
- Contributed to overall organizations Monorepo with over 100 apps

### Senior Front End Engineer @ Cigna
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Bloomfield, Connecticut
- Lead the front end development of the L3Harris Education Tool SPA. This tool was used by over 50,000 L3Harris employees.
- Developed the Up to Speed: The Agile@Cigna Newsletter app using Handlebars, HTML, JS, JSON. This newsletter currently serves the Cigna Agile team's efforts and has been viewed 50,975 times. (https://iris.cigna.com/tools_and_resources/agile_at_cigna/agile_community/agile_newsletter)
- Developed an interactive animated Quiz experience for the Cigna University Thrive Through Change campaign using Vuejs, ES6, Vuex store, GitLab CI/CD and Lottie
(https://iris.cigna.com/career_benefits/empowered/careergrowth/thrive_through_change)
- Built robust and performant web apps using tools like ES6 JavaScript, Vue.js, GraphQL, AWS, Docker, Cypress e2e testing and PWA.
- Enhance the interactivity of web apps with Lottie Animations
- GitLab CI/CD Advocate
- Contributed to open-source tools like Meltano(GitLab).
- Developed an internal CIGNA Video on Demand (VOD)

### Front End Engineer @ BLOOM
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Area
- Worked as an engineer on a fully remote startup based in OKC.
- Built web app using React, Redux, Firebase and deployed on Heroku.

See the project details below.

### Freelance Full Stack Developer @ Lumi Agency
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Hartford, Connecticut Area
- Worked with a team of amazing people to meet client needs.
- Built high performant Wordpress websites.
- Implemented custom functionalities in PHP and JavaScript

### Frontend Engineer @ Freelance Developer
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Bristol, Connecticut


## Education
### Master's degree in Software Development
Grand Canyon University

### Intro to Self Driving Cars Nanodegree in Computer Software Engineering
Udacity
Jan 2017

### Nanodegree in Front End Web Developer
Udacity
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/charlesanim

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Last updated: 2026-03-22