Anthony Molinaro
Distinguished Engineer at OpenX
Pasadena, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnthony Molinaro is a Distinguished Engineer with 18 years of experience architecting and operating highly available, large-scale web systems from Pasadena, California. He specializes in system architecture, high-availability design, and NoSQL platforms, blending open source and proprietary technologies to solve production-scale problems. At OpenX he progressed from senior staff to distinguished engineer, driving resilient infrastructure and platform initiatives that support heavy traffic and low-latency demands. His open-source contributions include backend improvements to the widely used webmachine REST framework and practical tooling fixes for StevenBlack/hosts, reflecting a hands-on approach to reliability and maintainability. Known as a generalist who moves comfortably between deep refactors and operational troubleshooting, he often surfaces subtle dependency and build issues before they affect production. Trained as an engineer at Caltech, he pairs rigorous technical grounding with pragmatic, long-term system thinking.
18 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Engineering and Applied Science, BS, Engineering and Applied Science at California Institute of Technology
Github Skills (21)
erlang10
webmachine10
python10
testing10
api-design9
restful-api9
web-application9
command-line-interface9
develop9
api-rest9
error-handling9
application9
concurrency9
rest-api9
logging8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
webmachine/webmachine
Jun 2011 - Dec 2015
A REST-based system for building web applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Anthony primarily focused on maintaining and improving the `webmachine` project's back-end functionality. Their contributions involved refactoring the codebase, specifically removing deprecated features, optimizing performance by replacing calls, and fixing bugs related to connection errors. They also addressed build dependencies and updated to the newest versions of dependent libraries.
rest
StevenBlack/hosts
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
🔒 Consolidating and extending hosts files from several well-curated sources. Optionally pick extensions for porn, social media, and other categories.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:11 commits, 4 PRs, 12 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Anthony primarily focused on improving the functionality and maintainability of the `updateHostsFile.py` script. They addressed several bugs, including a debugging statement and issues with unit tests. Additionally, the user refactored the code for better readability and added features, such as the ability to pass whitelist and blacklist files via command-line arguments and disabling the readme data generation. These changes improved the usability and flexibility of the host file generation process.
hosts-filepythonunified-hostsmalwaread-blocker
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