Summary
Antonio Reid is a Principal Software Engineer and seasoned educator based in Austin, Texas, with 8 years of experience blending hands-on engineering and curriculum leadership. He currently drives architecture and delivery at TWG Sportsclub while simultaneously mentoring cohorts and teaching full-stack software engineering at Flatiron School. Antonio’s technical breadth spans modern web stacks—React, Next.js, GraphQL/Federation 2, Ruby on Rails, Node/Nest/Express, TypeScript—and platform tooling like Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud services, enabling him to bridge product and developer enablement. He’s known for turning complex concepts into teachable, production-ready solutions and for fostering student career outcomes alongside shipping scalable systems. Motivated by a daily quest to learn and reduce suffering, he pairs technical depth with a people-first leadership style that surfaces in roles from cohort lead to principal engineer. An unusual strength is his ability to juggle concurrent educator and senior engineering responsibilities, keeping classroom practice tightly aligned with real-world production challenges.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Flatiron School
freeCodeCamp