Summary
Anthony Valera is a senior front-end engineer with 11 years of experience building performant, user-focused web applications and leading cross-functional teams. Currently a founding engineer at a stealth San Francisco startup and formerly at Glassdoor, he has a strong track record improving UI performance and front-end infrastructure—driving a 65% improvement in page performance and raising global code coverage through extensible testing. He combines hands-on engineering with mentoring experience from teaching full-stack JavaScript at Origin Code Academy, where his curriculum work contributed to a 100% job placement rate. Anthony organizes in the local developer community with SanDiegoJS and favors functional programming patterns, GraphQL, TypeScript, and pragmatic testing strategies. He’s comfortable designing scalable interfaces and developer workflows that reduce friction and ship faster, and has repeatedly turned prototype ideas into production features that attract users.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer