Edward Van Loon
Senior Software Development Engineer at Verizon
Powell, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolEdward Van Loon is a Senior Software Development Engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack Java and Angular applications, currently leading secure messaging, ticketing, and chatbot initiatives at Verizon. He blends backend Java/Spring expertise with front-end Angular/JavaScript skills, plus practical database and DevOps experience, and routinely mentors teams through code reviews and architectural guidance. Edward has driven security-first development—managing Fortify and Black Duck scans and remediating CVEs—and designed encrypted file upload and virus-scanning workflows. Early work in conversational AI evolved into production-focused virtual agents using API.AI, Watson, and Dialogflow, and he now leverages Copilot and Google Gemini to accelerate, prompt-engineer, and validate generated code. Based in Powell, Ohio, he’s an avid tinkerer of open-source LLMs for art and code generation and is always eager to adopt new tools and approaches.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Virginia TechBS, BS at The Ohio State University
English
Github Skills (27)
libretro8
api7
azerothcore6
python6
minecraft6
frontend5
trinitycore5
forge5
linux5
css4
cross-platform4
launcher4
react4
language-model3
jsx3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Tedris/PlugyTools
May 2019 - Nov 2020
A program to read PlugY stashes
Contributions:4 releases, 44 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 6 months
python
Tedris/tedris.github.io
Jun 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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