Anthony Garvan
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Anthony is a top-tier full stack web developer (Python/JavaScript) and data scientist (SQL/Python) with 10 years of experience building software for everything from to playing poker to predicting hurricanes. His working style is fun, communicative, consistent, and collaborative.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Git, Atom, Linux
The most amazing...
...weekend project I've done is a visualization of the 20,000 most common words in English that were positioned by their meanings in vector space.
Work Experience
Data Lead
General Services Administration | 18F
- Acted as the tech lead for the Federal Election Commission's new legal search portal, making their legal documentation (laws, regulations, etc.) easily searchable online.
- Wrote Checklistomania—an enterprise checklist tool optimized for onboarding that reached #4 spot on hacker news.
- Helped, as the data lead, the organization collect and implement the best practices around data storage and management.
- Wrote Coffeemate—a slackbot designed to break down silos within a remote organization by pairing people up for virtual coffee.
- Managed a team of 5—including 1:1s, problem resolution, and biweekly meetings.
Freelance Developer
Freelance Work
- Developed and deployed a statistical model to predict niche domain name profitability.
- Conducted an evaluation of high-performance messaging systems (RabbitMQ & Kafka), and built prototypes to determine the performance for high-volume payment data.
- Built a poker bot capable of playing optimal statistical strategy (no bluffing) in real online poker games.
Senior Software Engineer
ZS Associates
- Led the research and implementation of a business rules engine for sales alignment decisions.
- Wrote the Social Infograph—a MEAN stack app for exploring textual data.
- Conceived of and implemented a rapid analytics process for analyzing social media from a key conference—including automatically categorizing Twitter authors into predefined types and running SQL workflow to produce data for visualizing social activity for clients.
- Categorized audio files to detect topics for call center assistance.
- Implemented standard organizational duties: mentoring, stand-ups, sprint planning, and pairing.
Chief Technology Officer
Index Companies, LLC
- Acted as the primary developer and architect behind a platform for a predicted hurricane landfall on the East Coast based on 1 TB of satellite weather data.
- Presented findings to the CEO on a weekly basis, and presented findings to Warren Buffet's GenRe.
- Achieved a near parity with analytical methodologies with a purely statistical approach.
Research Assistant
Columbia University
- Built a web-based tool for calculating the high resolution carbon footprints at a massive scale.
- Discovered a new algorithm to reduce the carbon footprint calculation complexity from O(n^2) to O(n).
- Effected impacts including: code deployed at Ben & Jerry’s and a publication in the Journal of Industrial Ecology.
Senior Instrumentation Engineer
Nanosolar, Inc.
- Led two teams of two in research, design, and construction of metrology instrumentation and a pilot production solar cell manufacturing tool.
- Mined a data set of 1,000+ manufacturing variables recorded every second.
- Presented findings to the C-suite executives on a weekly basis.
- Performed a thermo-mechanical and electrical modeling of solar cell manufacturing processes and devices.
Experience
Federal Election Commission Legal Resources
https://beta.fec.gov/legal-resources/Rich Dot, Poor Dot
One In a Million
Word Galaxy
Simply Embed
Checklistomania
https://github.com/18F/checklistomaniaHey Microsoft, the Internet Made My Bot Racist, Too
Skills
Languages
Python, JavaScript, ECMAScript (ES6), SQL, HTML5, C#, HTML, Sass, CSS
Libraries/APIs
Scikit-learn, Node.js, jQuery, REST APIs, React, Handlebars, GitHub API, D3.js, SciPy, NumPy
Tools
GitHub, Slack, Git, Jira, Atom, MATLAB, LabVIEW, JMP, Karma, Travis CI, Babel, Browserify, Sublime Text 3
Storage
MongoDB, SQL Performance, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL
Other
APIs, Mathematical Modeling, Website Performance, Web Scraping, Full-stack, Neural Networks, Minitab, ESLint
Frameworks
Jest, AngularJS, Django, Flask
Paradigms
REST, Continuous Integration (CI), ETL, Model View Controller (MVC), Agile
Platforms
Linux
Education
Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering
Columbia University - New York, NY, USA
Bachelor of Science in Physics
Yale University - New Haven, CT, USA
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