About Me

Hi, I'm Anthony! A little about me, as a person: I live in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the US right now, I'm non-binary, and use they / them pronouns. I like reading, making visual and auditory art, creative coding, and playing games. I also love collaborating with people on things!

Work

I'm a software developer, and I like to work on all kinds of things. Professionally, I've worked in GIS for conservation, Publishing and E-Learning, Ad Tech, Health Informatics, Finance, and E-Commerce. In school I focused on Computer Science, Cognitive Science, and Human Computer Interaction, which is why I like user and developer experience a whole lot. I work on front and back end things.

Here are some interesting things I've worked on at various jobs:

• I added new visualizations and chart options to an web based analytical tool which helped users contextualize field observations with various kinds of yearly geospatial data.
• The front and back end of a tool for adjusting collections of geospatial shapes which reduced support volume and made it easier for users to update their data themselves.
• I co-created a tool for sharing maps, shapes, and geospatial imagery publicly for storytelling. You could even embed these shared maps on pages, and add multiple data sets to compare things.
• Several internal engineering talks on tools and tooling, collaborated on talks, and reviewed drafts for others.
• I've ported a bunch of front end modules and components from one framework to another, and one language to another.
• An ETL pipeline for EMR metadata, which involved setting up at-rest and in-transit encryption, a bunch of transformations, storing the result, then safely archiving files.
• Created background audio used in marketing materials for a geospatial remote monitoring tool.

I also like doing glue work, have led project teams, and like doing on-call rotations for the variety it offers and learning opportunities it affords. Although I'm not a people manager, people and process are also my jam. I love talking about how things are done and why, and about careers, goals, or anything related to growth.

If you're a hiring or want to work with me on something, reach out and let's chat!

This Site

I wanted this site to be light, accessible, relatively simple, and not actively run any scripts. I've written a lot of web app code, and most of that isn't necessary for some words, media, and the occasional script.

Under the hood, pages are Preact components which are rendered to html strings, and then turned into static files through templating using Vento. I use Deno to run the build script, which is fairly minimal. There's not enough site yet to justify building more checks or adding linting or tests, but maybe eventually that'll become necessary. There might eventually be other themes, but v1.0 will use softened defaults.