Summary
Anthony Lewis is a seasoned technical lead and software engineer with 15 years of experience building and scaling web platforms, currently leading engineering at Braintree in Austin. He combines deep Ruby on Rails expertise with a history of managing distributed teams, hiring and mentoring engineers, and running CI/CD-driven agile processes across product and engineering. Author of Rails Crash Course and an active speaker, organizer, and teacher, he brings a strong developer-educator perspective to leadership. His background spans hands-on systems work (from security roles to network management) through senior engineering and management at adtech and payments companies, giving him rare full-stack and operational fluency. Colleagues rely on him to translate product priorities into pragmatic, testable engineering plans while cultivating team growth and craftsmanship.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Texas A&M University-Commerce