Anthony Starks
Developer Designer at The Duboisians
New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnthony Starks is a Developer Designer with 16 years of experience blending engineering, visualization, and product-focused design to build delightful, future-ready tools. He leads independent creative-coding and data-visualization work through The Duboisians while bringing enterprise architecture and solutioning experience from roles at Sanofi, Genmab, Merck, and Johnson & Johnson. Technically fluent in Go and SVG, Anthony is a notable contributor to the ajstarks/svgo library, adding animation and transformation primitives that power programmatic graphics. He combines hands-on implementation with strategy, having led North America strategy and architecture efforts and delivered global collaboration solutions. Based in New Jersey, he pursues an “art + code” approach that prioritizes quality, innovation, and customer delight. An understated detail: his open-source work focuses on low-level graphics primitives, showing a taste for foundational tooling that enables richer visual experiences.
16 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Technology, BS Computer Technology at Purdue University (IUPUI)
English
Github Skills (7)
go10
svg10
text-format9
text-formatting9
animation9
xml8
testing7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ajstarks/svgo
Mar 2010 - Oct 2021
Go Language Library for SVG generation
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:354 commits, 14 PRs, 66 pushes in 11 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Anthony's commits primarily involve implementing and demonstrating functionality within a Go library (`ajstarks/svgo`) for generating Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). They added support for new SVG elements like `<animateMotion>`, and various transformation methods like `Scale`, `Rotate`, and `Skew`, indicating work on core graphics functionalities. Furthermore, the user seems focused on expanding the library by adding features and testing their interactions.
golanggolang-librarygraphic-designsvg-imagessvg
ajstarks/deckviz
Feb 2019 - Jan 2023
Contributions:223 commits, 288 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
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