Anthony Astige
Senior Front End Engineer
Facebook, Inc
2019 – Present
- Just getting started, figuring out where I can make the most impact!
Senior Software Engineer
Brightidea, Inc
2017 – 2019
- Initiated and led React Native / React Native Web research, presentation, and architecture
enabling faster development and feature parity within our legacy Web / Android / iOS product
- Mentored three developers in our new React / Redux / Thunk architecture through code reviews and coaching, leading to their direct front end contributions
- Built a Jest / Enzyme framework, reducing bugs and enabling test driven development
- Led front end engineering meetings, honing problem solving, prioritization, and action
- Saved hundreds of dev hours by automating code formatting via Prettier / ESLint / Git / Bash
- Used responsive CSS to enable mobile use on pages with tens of thousands of daily views
- Enabled our on stage annual release by architecting for five engineers to work simultaneously, and personally abstracted complex modern JavaScript / SCSS modules
Owner and Student
Zinid LLC
2014 – 2017
- Created a real time Meteor.JS / MongoDB food tracking web app at trackmyfoods.com
- Learned React foundations by creating a YouTube game in ten days at beats.zinid.com
- Used Ubuntu / Glitch / Firebase / Node / HAProxy / PM2 to host anthony.astige.com
- Volunteered and mentored at Code for Eau Claire to develop community web applications
- Traveled internationally, learned residential repair trades, flipped a house, and had a kid
Owner
Anthony's Web LLC
2010 – 2014
- Led PHP / MySQL / JS / HTML / CSS app development in education, electronic recycling, genetic engineering, non-profit, medical, social media, social networking, and sports
- Improved code quality across a dozen clients by convincing a single nontechnical client to fund Anthony's Web LLC in creation and open sourcing of full stack coding standards
- Setup Linux / Apache cloud development servers, enabling remote collaboration
- Interviewed, hired, and trained a team of five developers
- Streamlined processes via Google Calendar and Basecamp's API, creating thousands of tasks
- Drafted worker schedule contracts, created client worker collaboration procedures, and setup a billing system to serve more than a dozen clients
Principal Software Developer
Anthony's Web Development
2006 – 2010
- Supported two hundred million dollars in sales by using CakePHP to make fantasyjunction.com
- Made a gaming fan site with PHP / MySQL / SEO, generating ten million views over five years
- Improved a gaming tournament site hosting hundreds of matches with PHP / MySQL / jQuery
Education
Earned ninety credits towards a Computer Science degree at UC Berkeley
2001 – 2005