Anthony Watson
Software Engineer at Confidential
Springfield, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolAnthony Watson is a pragmatic software engineer with 11+ years building and modernizing ASP.NET and .NET Core web applications, APIs, and billing/e-commerce systems for enterprise and healthcare clients. He combines deep backend skills in C#, SQL Server, Entity Framework and WebAPI with front-end work using JavaScript, jQuery and Bootstrap, and routinely navigates complex framework and NuGet upgrades. Experienced as a programmer/DBA, he has administered multiple SQL servers, authored REST services that automated EDI flows, and converted legacy VB/VB6 systems to modern microservice-friendly C# architectures while maintaining compliance in regulated environments. Comfortable mentoring teams and doing hands-on troubleshooting, Anthony has a long history of practical problem-solving—from Delphi-era web scraping hacks to today’s .NET Core migrations—bringing a creative, revenue-focused mindset to technical work. Based in Springfield, Illinois, he describes himself simply as a longtime coder who enjoys turning legacy constraints into dependable, profitable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
35 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Business Administration, BS, Business Administration at California Coast UniversityGithub contributions (3)
a-r-watson/voodoo-programming
Jan 2015 - Jan 2020
Contributions:30 commits, 2 PRs, 28 pushes in 5 years
voodoo
a-r-watson/JavaScript
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
Contributions:1 branch in 1 day
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