Anna Carey
Staff Full-stack Software Engineer at Focal Acuity
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolAnna Carey is a pragmatic Staff Full-stack Software Engineer with 15 years of experience delivering reliable, maintainable systems across the stack from Indianapolis. She prefers Ruby on Rails but routinely jumps into JavaScript, Node, and infrastructure work to solve production challenges, having scaled VA.gov to 1.5M sessions/day and hardened its login system with SAML and multiple identity providers. Anna has led teams and projects for nonprofits, insurers, and enterprises—shipping e-commerce platforms, ticketing and membership systems, and HIPAA-compliant services—while improving performance, security, and operational practices. Comfortable in small, focused teams, she combines hands-on coding, mentoring, and SRE responsibility, and is known for pragmatic tradeoffs that keep systems usable and maintainable in real-world environments.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
The University of QueenslandBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science at Grinnell College
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Github Skills (196)
rubocop10
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static-analysis10
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code-analyzer10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mobi/declarative_authorization
Mar 2016 - May 2018
An authorization Rails plugin using a declarative DSL for specifying authorization rules in one place
Contributions:18 commits, 21 PRs, 28 pushes in 2 years 1 month
placeauthorizationrailsdslauthentication
annaswims/seamless_database_pool
Jan 2016 - Oct 2018
Add support for master/slave database clusters in ActiveRecord to improve performance.
Contributions:4 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 10 months
railsclustersmasterrubyslave
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