About Me

Hi, I'm Anthony! A little about me, as a person: I'm non-binary, and use they / them pronouns, and I live in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the US. I like reading, sketching and painting, listening to and creating music, creative coding, and playing games. I also love collaborating with people on things!

Work

As a software developer, I like to work on all kinds of things. Professionally, I've worked in GIS spaces, publishing and e-learning, ad tech, health informatics, finance, and e-commerce environments. In school I focused on Computer Science, Cognitive Science, and Human Computer Interaction, which is why I like topics around user and developer experience a lot. I work on the back end, the front end, and a lot of things in between.

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

• I added new functionality to a spatial analytical tool in a remote monitoring app, which involved generating new visuals, adding new configuration options, and integrating data from field observations. This let users look at the state of pasture land and yearly precipitation values to inform land stewardship decisions.
• A tool customers could use to share views of properties they managed along with other spatial data. You could also embed these shared views on other pages, like blog posts, resulting in really interesting story-telling and marketing options.
• 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.
• I maintained portions of an in-house UI library and design system, and coordinated with many different teams on their maintenance and use. Occasionally this involved rewriting them, but often this was doing simple maintenance work on the component or its CI / CD pipeline.
• Regularly gave internal engineering talks on tools, tooling, and process. Also collaborated on talks, and encouraged others to give their own talks on things they were excited about.
• I created some synth tunes for background audio that was used in marketing materials for a product I worked on. This was mostly for fun and collaboration with my friend in marketing, and not part of any core responsibilities I had as a developer. We almost collected all the different tunes into an album!

Other stuff: 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, so I love talking about how things are done and why, and about careers, goals, or anything related to growth.

If you're looking for a developer 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 have to run any JS. I've written a lot of web app code, and most of that isn't necessary for some words, media, and the occasional example.

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 build everything, 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.