Apples (fruit) to Apples (laptops)

Growing up on a farm (apples/cherries/peaches) in the Midwest, I learned to be resourceful and gritty. Since then, I've gone from individual contributor to leadership in Product Engineering and now I love to help companies when it comes to:

medium- and long-term partnering/strategy in architecture, operations, and (product) roadmapping
digging in to thorny technical challenges
providing architectural thinking and guidance to others on implementation
advising on making engineering processes (e.g. releases, development, operations) more efficient, and
mentoring senior engineers into leadership.

Of course - my hardware of choice is a Macbook Pro; how could it not be as the son of an apple grower.

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Expertise

I drive qualitative and quantitative improvements in these domains:

Product Engineering

With a solid full-stack background along with experiences in mobile and VR product engineering, coupled with a common thread of JavaScript and Single Page Applications throughout my career, I exhibit a bias for action, unblocking teams and positioning them to ship value.

Distributed Teams

In addition to hiring for, managing, and creating culture as part of local SF-based teams, raising the bar cross-functionally through mentorship, continuous-learning opportunities, and performance-improvement plans, I've created 10X value via teams in India, Pakistan, Costa Rica, Canada, Ukraine, Austria, and Russia.

Communication & Collaboration

An unusual breed: I bring deep technical abilities along with relationship-building skills, empathy, and a deep understanding of the challenges faced by users and stakeholders, technical and non-technical alike, in order to effectively balance trade-offs, competing priorities, and complexity against team capabilities and timelines.

Performance

I know all the tricks to improve frontend and backend, leading to a better user experience, more conversions, and better SEO.

Program/Project Management

A longtime practitioner of Agile, I apply just the right amount of process to ensure the team understand KPIs and partners to deliver on the roadmap.

Online Marketplaces

With 10+ years experience, I've methodically grown both demand- and supply-sides.

What Others Say

A few notables quotes said by those who've worked with me.

[Anthony's] most defining feature is his positivity—even when there are fires to put out. His consistent "Yes-and" approach always inspires teammates to seek ways forward rather than be stumped by ambiguous business situations or technical challenges. This was especially apparent in his collaboration with business stakeholders and in his style of motivating our team of off-shore engineers.

- former PROD MGR

Anthony was exceptionally thoughtful about his team members, his work and helping to drive what was most important at a given moment in time. Anthony works very well with Product, Design, as well as Marketing.

- former VP ENGR

Anthony is great to work with from the Product standpoint -- he ensures the whole context and business value of an effort is understood in order to enable his team to make good tradeoffs when unexpected issues come up. He is incredibly accountable and transparent, thinks ahead in the project and beyond his own code contributions [...] He also finds ways to identify address issues diplomatically in the right forum (even when working remotely)

- former stakeholder, VP PROD

Anthony has continuously impressed me with his strong planning and communication skills, which make him an effective and respected leader. We have worked through some challenging projects and I can always count on him to be calm, supportive and willing to talk through every issue as we strive to come up with the best possible approaches.

- former VP ENGR

[Anthony] always shows up with a positive, "can do" attitude and looks for practical solutions to get features delivered [...] he was a true partner to the product team, promoting constructive collaboration

- former peer, Prod Mgt

- former VP ENGR

[Anthony] managed to set up a process of working with an offshore team and has been a great help of managing work between engineers and project managers while also focusing on improving the product.

- former direct report: remote Sr. Rails Engineer

Anthony has the amazing ability to juggle between being hands-on with that of people and project management. He displays great leadership and promotes collaboration and communication across the teams he manages. At crunch times he is great at cat-corralling to get everyone across the finish line.

- former direct report: Rails Engineer

[Anthony] excels at selfless leadership, as someone who cares more about others than himself. As an engineer, Anthony keeps my stress level extremely low, allowing me to keep my productivity high.

- former direct report: Rails Engineer

Delivering results through people, processes, and architecture.

Apples (fruit) to Apples (laptops)

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