Anthony Restaino
Principal Software Development Engineer, Android at Zillow
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAnthony Restaino is a Principal Software Development Engineer specializing in Android with 13 years of experience building apps and platform features at companies like Zillow and Vimeo. He combines product-focused engineering with a penchant for solving process inefficiencies, evidenced by an Android app used daily to streamline field data collection and an independent Lightning Browser project with over a million installs. Anthony is an active open-source contributor to multimedia and browser tooling—improving mp4composer-android to add trimming, HEVC/AVC support and more robust codec handling. Based in New York, he brings deep Android expertise across media, networking, and platform architecture while continually pushing toward cleaner, more maintainable code. Colleagues describe him as relentlessly curious and driven to learn, which fuels both his platform-level work and long-running independent projects.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's Degree, Engineering Science, GPA: 3.95, Associate's Degree, Engineering Science, GPA: 3.95 at Hudson Valley Community CollegeBachelor's Degree, Electrical Engineering, GPA: 3.46, Bachelor's Degree, Electrical Engineering, GPA: 3.46 at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Github Skills (21)
kotlin10
webview10
video-encoding10
android-development10
java10
javas10
mp410
android10
codec10
android-webview10
avcodec10
video-codec10
ssl9
user-interface9
ui-design9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
anthonycr/Lightning-Browser
Feb 2013 - Nov 2022
A lightweight Android browser with modern navigation
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:15 releases, 1 review, 1922 commits in 9 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Anthony primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the Lightning Browser, an Android application. Their work involved implementing new features related to SSL state management, refactoring code, and improving the user interface. This included creating new functionalities like adding support for managing custom browser headers, handling web page video controls and showing a dialog to confirm file download actions. They also added support for various features of the application, especially incognito mode.
android-browserandroidlightning-browserbrowserkotlin
MasayukiSuda/Mp4Composer-android
Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
This library generate an Mp4 movie using Android MediaCodec API and apply filter, scale, trim, transcode, crop, timeScale, mute and rotate Mp4.
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:35 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 1 month
Contributions summary:Anthony primarily contributed to the Android library `mp4composer-android`, enhancing its functionality and compatibility. Their commits focused on improving the library's features by adding support for trimming video clips, handling different audio formats, and supporting more video codecs like HEVC and AVC within the MP4 container. Furthermore, they made changes to improve code maintainability, deprecated API usages, and handle various cases like unsupported file types gracefully.
androidmp4transcodeandroid-libraryopengles
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