Anna Thornton
Associate Software Engineer
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAnna Thornton is an Associate Software Engineer based in New York with nine years of hands-on experience building and hardening cloud-native buildpacks and deployment tooling. At Pivotal she focuses on backend and DevOps work, contributing extensive test automation, CI/CD improvements, and dependency management across Cloud Foundry buildpacks for Python, Ruby, PHP, Node.js and static sites. Her contributions include integration tests for features like pipenv and NLTK, support for AppDynamics/New Relic, and fixes for dependency installation and unicode issues—work that helps countless apps deploy reliably on Cloud Foundry. Comfortable touching both build logic and release pipelines, she blends developer ergonomics with operational robustness to reduce failure modes in production. A University of Rochester computer science graduate, she pairs rigorous engineering with a practical focus on reproducible deployments. An often-understated strength is her knack for surfacing subtle compatibility issues across language ecosystems and turning them into dependable automation.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at University of Rochester
English, Spanish
Github Skills (32)
json10
docker10
cloud-foundry10
pytest10
python10
pipenv10
scripting10
testing10
rspec10
dockers10
cicd10
ruby10
php10
script10
bundler10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/php-buildpack
Sep 2016 - Jul 2017
A Cloud Foundry Buildpack for PHP.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 28 pushes, 3 branches in 10 months
Contributions summary:Anna primarily contributed to the PHP buildpack, implementing new features and fixing existing issues. Their work included adding support for the RdKafka module in PHP7, as evidenced by new fixture apps and specifications. They also addressed issues related to invalid JSON in composer.lock and composer.json files, improving the buildpack's error handling. Additionally, the user optimized the buildpack, shortening fixture app names and ensuring the buildpack version is always logged.
buildpackcloud-foundryphpv2b
cloudfoundry/python-buildpack
Sep 2016 - Aug 2017
Cloud Foundry buildpack for the Python Language
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:20 commits, 12 pushes, 3 branches in 10 months
Contributions summary:Anna primarily contributed to the testing and deployment aspects of the Python buildpack. They added integration tests, including those for new features like pipenv support and NLTK integration. The user also improved the buildpack's functionality by incorporating features such as Python version selection and fixing deployment processes for dependencies. Additionally, the user addressed issues related to dependency installation and unicode support.
buildpackcloud-foundrypythonv2b
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