Anderson Mesquita
Principal Software Engineer at BearTracks (by Bear River Associates)
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolAnderson Mesquita is a Principal Software Engineer with 14 years of experience delivering backend and mobile systems across startups and large enterprises, currently leading engineering efforts at BearTracks in Washington, D.C. He brings deep polyglot expertise—Ruby on Rails, PHP, C/C++, Python and shell—with proven track record in databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle) and modern VCS and CI workflows. His career blends long-term consulting with ThoughtWorks and hands-on product work at Dataminr and Spotify, where he helped shape scalable services and team practices. An active open-source contributor, he has improved projects like AntennaPod, OpenStack Heat and Syncthing, often focusing on refactors that simplify lifecycles and tighten APIs. Multilingual (native Portuguese; proficient English, French and Spanish), he pairs technical leadership with a knack for turning legacy codebases into maintainable, well-tested systems.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Federal University of Ceara
Portuguese, English, Spanish, French
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Github Skills (47)
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Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/heat
Oct 2013 - Aug 2015
OpenStack Orchestration (Heat). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:68 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Anderson primarily contributed to the OpenStack Heat orchestration project by refactoring existing code and implementing new features. The user updated the code to replace the usage of the admin flag with the tenant_safe flag. They also refactored tests to use mock instead of mox. Furthermore, they added support for limiting and sorting stacks and filter support for stack APIs.
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AntennaPod/AntennaPod
Apr 2019 - Nov 2020
A podcast manager for Android
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:37 commits, 17 PRs, 49 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Anderson primarily focused on improving the Android application, AntennaPod, by addressing compiler warnings, closing network requests, and handling iTunes duration formats. They refactored code to extract methods and added features such as scrolling to the currently playing chapter, and adding a space usage bar to a data folder dialog. Furthermore, they refactored and reorganized code to improve the lifecycle of various fragments within the application.
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