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 change the world 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.
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Twilio April 2022 — present
- 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.
State Farm ® February 2018 — March 2022
- 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.
Bank of America January 2017 — February 2018
- 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.
GM Financial June 2016 — December 2016
- 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.
University of California, Los Angeles 2019 — 2022
The University of Texas at Dallas 2014 — 2016
Stack Overflow Podcast December 2022
Online
PennApps September 2022
Philadelphia, PA
API Days July 2022
New York City, NY
Transform Together June 2022
Chicago, IL
Daily Sit-Down
Developed an application using Python and Airtable, enhancing the experience of daily stand-up meetings.
TwilioQuest Extension
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.
Summarize Text from Images
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.
Do You Like Scary Movies?
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.
NBA News on Demand
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.
JSON Resume using LinkedIn
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.
www.AnthonyDellavecchia.com
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.
Automated Job Scraping
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.
Use Your Fingerprint with 1Password to Authenticate the Twilio CLI December 2022
AI Wrote this Blog Post About Taking Over Your Job December 2022
Gaining Trust in APIs November 2022
Do You Like Scary Movies? October 2022
Summarize Text from Images using AI and Twilio September 2022
Get the Latest NBA Sent to Your Phone via SMS July 2022
Introducing Developer Evangelist Anthony June 2022
What Are APIs Part 2 March 2022
What Are APIs Part 1 February 2022
Fonts For Programmers January 2022
Updating My Avatar January 2022
MongoDB Atlas Hackathon January 2022
Rogue Dev Purposely Breaks Software January 2022
How to Add Search to Your Hugo Site January 2022
Is 99% Good? January 2022
How to Forward Emails to Your Domain December 2021
Launch Insights December 2021
How to Check your Websites Users December 2021
How to Animate an Emoji with CSS December 2021
Designing an Animated Logo October 2021
Magic Numbers April 2021
How to Never Miss Out on a Job Opportunity March 2018
Developer Relations
- Public Speaking
- Technical Content Creation
- Writing
- Video Production
- Social Media
- Empathy
Software Development
- Python
- Java
- Git
- CI/CD
- HTML/CSS/JavaScript
- DevOps