Summary
Ethan Anderson is a Senior Software Engineer in Minneapolis with 11 years building resilient, production-grade systems across finance, healthcare, retail, and embedded domains. He favors elegant, simple designs and has deep hands-on experience with Spring Boot, Spring Data REST, Kafka Streams, Elasticsearch, and single-page front-ends like AngularJS and Vue.js. His career blends long-term enterprise engagements and contract work, where he’s delivered APIs, real-time data platforms, chatbots, and automation tooling on AWS and OpenStack. At Best Buy and TCF Bank he prototyped NLU/NLP and real-time customer data solutions, showing a knack for applying research ideas pragmatically. Known for reducing operational friction—through custom starters, logging dashboards, and refactors that speed development—he’s equally comfortable in legacy Java EE lifts and modern microservice architectures. He’s pursuing continued technical depth and world-class solutions, bringing a pragmatic engineer’s curiosity and cross-domain experience to new challenges.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Arizona
Desert Vista High School
Japanese, English