Anthony Dellavecchia

Staff Developer Evangelist

• Inspire: Designed and implemented innovative Python applications utilizing Twilio APIs, and provided hands-on training to hundreds of developers through 8 comprehensive workshops.
• Public Speaking: Delivered a keynote talk at a premier tech conference, engaged with enterprise developers through webinar Q&A sessions, and provided mentorship to hundreds of student developers at multiple national hackathons.
• Community: Established the first meetup group for Twilio developers in the Pacific Northwest, successfully expanding the community to over 130 members and reached a total Net Promotor Score of 77.
• Leadership: Represented the Developer Network organization in meetings with senior leadership and marketing stakeholders, effectively communicating its initiatives and objectives.
• Engagement: Built the TwilioQuest Booth Extension, a unique level in our educational video game that attracts, engages, and educates developers about Twilio APIs at conferences and events.
• 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: Facilitated internal cross-collaboration between product, marketing, sales, and development teams, as well as with external partners such as Stripe, Box, and 1Password.
• Story Telling: Authored and published technical blog posts and videos that guide, inspire, and spark the interest of thousands of developers to create solutions using Twilio.

Software Engineer

• Backend: Developed, tested, deployed, and maintained business-critical RESTful APIs that serves data and handles 100,000+ requests to our insurance policy platform, mitigating the risk of millions in monetary loss.
• Integration Layer: Designed and implemented 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: Optimized 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: Conducted 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: Created and managed the marketing content for our annual department-wide IT conference which is open to over 50,000 employees.
• Chaos Engineering: Reduced web service unplanned downtime by implementing Chaos Engineering tools to determine potential failure points, which saves time and costs.
• Automation: Performed BDD using Agile methodology by writing automated E2E UI tests in CodeceptJS and Gherkin to quickly and effectively validate business scenarios.

Applications Programmer

• Leadership: Conducted in-depth analysis of internal hiring data, presenting weekly reports to senior management to support hiring decisions.
• Frontend: Developed a frontend web application written in TypeScript, which manages customer banking appointments and 20,000+ associate schedules.
• Troubleshooting: Collaborated with stakeholders and product teams to implement business requirements and resolve technical defects and bugs.

ETL Developer Intern

• ETL: Built data mapping transformations using ETL tools to extract, transform, and load data for various data warehouse projects.
• Database: Executed SQL search queries to filter data subsets needed for staging and transformation.
• Monitoring: Scheduled, monitored, and configured automatic failure notifications for 700+ ETL workflows in production.

Developed an application using Python and Airtable, enhancing the experience of daily stand-up meetings.

Built a mission in TwilioQuest, Twilio's educational video game, to attract and teach developers how to use Twilio at tech events. The mission includes coding challenges for players, conversations with NPCs, Twilio API missions, and more. It was built with Phaser.js and Tiled.

Developed a Python app that performs text recognition on photos then sends you a message with a summary. It uses the Google Cloud Vision API to detect text in images, OpenAI to generate a summary of the text, and the Twilio SMS API to alert users.

Created a serverless web app that spooks users by re-creating a famous scene from the movie Scream. Built with low-code tools and serverless functions, it's a fun application to share during Halloween.

Built a demo app in Python using the Twilio SMS API to send users on-demand NBA news. It's meant to guide beginners to send and receive incoming messages using Twilio.

Customized a chrome extension to parse data from a LinkedIn profile, generate a custom JSON file, transform the data using a Python script, and build an online resume (hosted on Firebase). Developed and packaged multiple themes on NPM and GitHub Registry. Also created a subdomain name to point to this Firebase function.

Developed a website to showcase my person brand, portfolio, and speaking engagements. It's built with Hugo, a static-site generator, and has a custom domain name hosted on Firebase & GitHub. It's integrated with my JSON resume project, so users can view my resume in a variety of styles.

Developed a server-side script with Node.js that automatically searches and scrapes data of job postings from select company websites, then sends a notification to the user.