Summary
Anthony Graca is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with 10+ years building mission-critical embedded systems, edge computer-vision, and full-stack web services across defense and commercial domains. He has driven high-impact projects—from modernizing legacy flight software that enabled successful first flights and multimillion-dollar contracts to integrating person and vehicle detection on Jetson-powered UAVs deployed in operational theaters. A pragmatic engineer and educator, he champions test-driven development, CI, and tooling improvements that cut development time and improved maintainability while also teaching K–12 and mentoring college students to solidify fundamentals. He founded an outreach organization to scale CS education resources and applies “learn by doing” to both product and pedagogy. Comfortable across C/C++, Python, web stacks, and build/test automation, he blends embedded rigor with data-collection ambitions for ML-driven insights from IoT deployments.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Cal Poly Pomona
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at California State University, Fullerton