Anthony Dellavecchia

Anthony Dellavecchia

Software Engineer, passionate about Developer Advocacy and Experience

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Summary

I write code on stage in front of a crowd. With 5+ years of experience in full-stack software development, I aim to teach and inspire thousands of developers to build cool things with code. I enjoy sparking the imagination of developers and helping them build deep experiences with technology. I'm interested in applying creativity to software engineering, public speaking, advocating for the developer community, creating technical content and storytelling, improving developer experiences, contributing to open-source software, and influencing teams to build great products.

Experience

04/2022 - Invalid date

Staff Developer Evangelist

  • Engagement: Built the TwilioQuest Booth Extension, a level in our educational video game that attracts, engages, and educates developers at conferences and events to learn about Twilio APIs.
  • Keynote: Programmed the front end of Twilio's Silent Network Authentication iOS demo application, which was highlighted during the Developer Keynote at Twilio Signal 2022.
  • Collaborate: In partnership with 1Password, lead the efforts for co-marketing and product feedback of their CLI plugin that integrates with Twilio for a seamless authentication process.
  • Inspire: Developed creative sample projects with Twilio APIs, then taught hundreds of developers across seven workshops how they can build similar projects for their use.
  • Public Speaking: Delivered a keynote talk at a tech conference, addressed questions from enterprise developers during webinars, and mentored hundreds of student developers at multiple hackathons across the country.
  • Story Telling: Publish technical blog posts and videos that guide, inspire, and spark the interest of thousands of developers to build with Twilio.
  • Community: Established the first meetup group for Twilio developers in the Pacific Northwest, helped grow the community to over 100 members and reached a total Net Promotor Score of 77.
02/2018 - 03/2022

Software Engineer

  • Backend: Develop, test, deploy, and maintain business-critical RESTful APIs using Java & Spring Boot framework that serves data and handles 100,000+ requests to our insurance policy platform, to prevent millions in monetary loss.
  • Integration Layer: Design and implement a microservice integration layer utilizing Java & Spring Boot to abstract components between our core application and outbound calls to high-impact business data, which help calculate insurance rates.
  • DevOps: Optimize software release efficiency up to 50% by creating CI/CD pipelines that automatically build, scan, test, and deploy software, which improves time-to-market.
  • Community: Conduct developer talks, technical presentations, and tutorials for hundreds of internal software developers, as well as other non-technical audiences (such as analysts and management).
  • Marketing: Create and manage the marketing content for our annual department-wide IT conference which is open to over 50,000 employees.
  • Chaos Engineering: Reduce web service unplanned downtime by implementing Chaos Engineering tools to determine potential failure points, which saves time and costs.
  • Automation: Perform BDD using Agile methodology by writing automated E2E UI tests in CodeceptJS and Gherkin to quickly and effectively validate business scenarios.
  • Quality: Provide guidance and leadership to implement best practices and tools for optimizing team productivity, spearhead document creation of solution architecture, and create dashboards & reports for management.
01/2017 - 02/2018

Applications Programmer

  • Frontend: Develop a frontend web application written in TypeScript, which manages customer banking appointments and 20,000+ associate schedules.
  • Troubleshooting: Collaborate with stakeholders and product teams to implement business requirements and resolve technical defects and bugs.
  • Metrics: Perform analysis on internal hiring data and create weekly reports for senior management to build teams based on skillsets and experience.
06/2016 - 12/2016

ETL Developer Intern

  • ETL: Build data mapping transformations using ETL tools to extract, transform, and load data for various data warehouse projects.
  • Database: Execute SQL search queries to filter data subsets needed for staging and transformation.
  • Monitoring: Schedule, monitor, and configure automatic failure notifications for 700+ ETL workflows in production.

Education

University of California, Los Angeles

12/2019 - 12/2022

Master of Science Engineering Management

The University of Texas at Dallas

12/2014 - 12/2016

Bachelor of Science Information Technology and Systems

Awards

Cum Laude Honors

The University of Texas at Dallas

Awarded to students with a GPA between 3.533 and 3.72, which also represents the top 15 percent of students, in Naveen Jindal School of Management.

Dean's List

The University of Texas at Dallas

Achieved a 4.0 GPA during the semester. This award is for students with a GPA among the Top 10% in the Naveen Jindal School of Management.

Comet Scholarship

The University of Texas at Dallas

University scholarship awarded to select transfer students.