Anthony Rodriguez

Senior Software Engineer

Zillow•  May 2017 - Present

As part of an agile team, I lead the scoping, costing, design, implementation, testing, and own solutions for SEO critical services. I provide support and guidance to the rest of the team on best practices including design and implementation of new and existing services. I am the team AWS specialist and provide guidance on cloud architecture and AWS cloud integrations. Highlighted Achievements: • Deprecated and replaced several long running, costly, and inadequate legacy systems with new and easily maintainable services that have become integral in the company’s SEO strategy • Lead the initiative to move away from mono-repos and toward micro-services thereby increasing developer throughput and improving developer experience

Software Engineer

Trulia•  August 2016 - May 2017

As part of an agile team, I developed and helped managed full stack (terraform -> react) solutions for SEO critical services, front facing full-scale components, consumer facing feature services, and CI/CD integrations for the aforementioned projects. I helped bring all of these services into the cloud (AWS), and helped break the legacy monolith into micro-services. Highlighted Achievements: • Lead efforts in updating our legacy PHP codebase out of PHP5 and into PHP7 which improved performance by about 10% - 15% • Contributed to our team becoming the first in our organization to move all critical services 100% into the cloud

Software Intern

Kaiser Permanente•  October 2015 - August 2016

As part of a three-person team, I maintained the existing set of internal tools while working with primary stakeholders to understand software requirements for a replacement suite. Highlighted Achievements: • Helped define and implemented a business continuity plan (disaster recovery) in cases of catastrophic failure • Refactored large swaths of the legacy codebase to improve the email system used to trigger downstream business processes • Optimized SQL queries and table schemas to improve end-user workflow

Software Intern

Thermo Fisher Scientific•  July 2014 - October 2014

Along with a mentor I designed and implemented extensions for an existing system to help mine large data sets (terabytes per day) to surface real-world DNA sequencing instrument performance and establish a feedback loop for customer support, marketing, business intelligence, and future research and development. Highlighted Achievements: • Surfaced data used by the research and development teams to more deeply understand real-world performance metrics • Surfaced data that allowed customer support to establish a database of common errors and a playbook for helping customers

Software Intern

Bauer's Intelligent Transportation•  April 2013 - August 2013

As part of a three-person team, I developed an Android application that allowed private black car service drivers to provide an estimate for potential customers.

Field Artillery Cannon Crewman

United States Marine Corps•  August 2006 - August 2010

I had the distinction of serving as a member of 3rd Battalion 11th Marine combat regiment stationed out of Twentynine Palms, CA, including deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.