Anthony Kirwan
Senior Software Engineer at Uber Freight
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolAnthony Kirwan is a Senior Software Engineer based in Chicago with 15 years of experience building scalable, customer-facing systems across logistics and consumer platforms. He leads full-stack initiatives at Uber Freight, owning frontend modernization, ERP integrations, and high-performance Go APIs that power quoting, booking, and automation workflows. Previously at Groupon he drove features on a global deal page that directly contributed millions in revenue and built cross-platform APIs and UIs; earlier work includes healthcare applications at Brigham and Women’s where he led API-first Rails projects with real-time features. Anthony contributes to open-source Ruby tooling—adding tokeninfo endpoints and improving OAuth token handling in the widely used doorkeeper gem—demonstrating a strong backend security and API mindset. He pairs hands-on engineering with mentorship and remote team leadership, and brings an uncommon creative background in fine arts that informs his attention to UX and design.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Degree Major Painting; Printmaking & Photography, Bachelor of Arts Degree Major Painting; Printmaking & Photography at San Diego State UniversityComputer Science Classes Software Engineering, Computer Science Classes Software Engineering at Harvard Extension School
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Github Skills (20)
authorizations10
apidoc10
rspec10
authentication10
user-authentication10
rails10
api10
authorization10
doorkeeper10
oauth10
ruby-on-rails10
gr8
grapesjs8
mongodb6
emberjs6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
doorkeeper-gem/doorkeeper
Jun 2012 - Jul 2012
Doorkeeper is an OAuth 2 provider for Ruby on Rails / Grape.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits in 28 days
Contributions summary:Anthony primarily contributed to the implementation of the tokeninfo endpoint and related functionalities for the Doorkeeper OAuth2 provider. They added routes, controller actions, and tests to support retrieving token information. Additionally, they refactored error responses and improved the token model by incorporating the `expires_in_seconds` method and formatting the json response. These changes enhanced the API's functionality and usability.
omniauthoauth2-serveridentitydoorkeeperruby
amkirwan/ember-token-auth
Jul 2014 - Dec 2016
Ember-CLI addon for using Ember-OAuth2 in your app
Contributions:19 releases, 229 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 5 months
ember-cliember-addonember-oauth2emberaddon
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