Anthony Leach
Senior Director Of Engineering at BigCommerce
Pacifica, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnthony Leach is a seasoned engineering leader with 12+ years of hands-on experience building and scaling e-commerce platforms, currently serving as Senior Director of Engineering at BigCommerce. He combines deep technical expertise in system architecture, application development, and database administration with a maker’s mentality—continuing to contribute to open-source projects like the BigCommerce PHP API client to improve reliability and integrations. A Magento Certified Enthusiast, Anthony has progressed through engineering and management ranks into strategic leadership while retaining high standards for code quality and sustainable development processes. Based in Pacifica, CA, he also runs a small business (AL Enterprises), reflecting an entrepreneurial streak and appetite for diverse technical challenges.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Yuba City High SchoolCertified Magento Developer Program, E-Commerce/Electronic Commerce, Certified Magento Developer Program, E-Commerce/Electronic Commerce at MagentoUBusiness, Computer Programming, Business, Computer Programming at Folsom Lake CollegeAlbert Powell High School
Github Skills (10)
php10
bigcommerce10
api10
curl10
apidoc10
api-design9
restful-api9
api-client9
rest-api9
api-rest9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
bigcommerce/bigcommerce-api-php
Jun 2014 - Jun 2016
Connect PHP applications with the Bigcommerce Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 releases, 41 commits, 28 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Anthony primarily worked on updating and improving the Bigcommerce API PHP client. Their contributions involved refactoring the code by removing a merged file, adding a convenience method, and fixing curl connection issues that caused timeouts. They also made changes to the connection class for handling different request types (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE), standardized spacing, and added methods for retrieving order products and reviews. Furthermore, they updated various methods within the client to accept and implement filtering parameters and also addressed count methods for data retrieval.
api-clientphpbigcommercephp-applications
aleachjr/bigcommerce-api-php
Feb 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:35 pushes, 7 branches in 4 months
phpbigcommercephp-applications
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