Anthony Sallows
Lead Software Engineer at PLACE
Bellingham, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAnthony Sallows is a Lead Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building and modernizing Ruby on Rails systems, currently leading a small team in Bellingham, WA to deliver internal tools, legacy migrations, and performance optimizations. He pairs hands-on refactoring—breaking monoliths into microservices and tuning Postgres/ActiveRecord—to measurable business impact, including automations that saved his company over $10k per month. Anthony mentors junior engineers, runs retros and code reviews, and coordinates closely with support and leadership to turn data requests and bug reports into prioritized, reliable fixes. His background includes co-founding a fintech marketplace and full-stack consulting work, giving him an owner’s perspective on security, testing, and product-focused delivery. Not immediately obvious: he combines operational pragmatism with a curiosity for continual self-improvement, driving both technical debt reduction and team growth.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Pre-Law Studies, Pre-Law Studies at Alaska Pacific UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy at Green Mountain College
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Github Skills (104)
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code-completion7
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ruby-on-rails6
vim6
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
antmachine/message_board
Aug 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:60 commits in 20 days
antmachine/dotfiles
Oct 2016 - Apr 2022
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
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