Anthony CameronHi, I’m Anthony Cameron
I’m a full stack software developer with a passion for the web and computer graphics. I’m user-focused and care deeply about whatever I work on.
I’m proactive and highly organized, with a strong ability to juggle multiple tasks at once. I enjoy working closely with UX to create the best possible user experience while considering technical requirements and limitations. I am driven to stay busy and dislike being idle.
Work Experience
Self-employed @ chicko.digital
Mar 2024 – current
- Contracted at ReturnBear (see entry below)
- Re-created and re-launched kyoubenkyou, now the world’s fastest Japanese-English dictionary with integrated learning tools
Software Developer (contract) @ ReturnBear
Mar 2024 – Oct 2024 ・ 7 mos
- Built out core app from scratch for a new Phoenix/Elixir fulfillment management system, implementing core features including package scanning, dimension tracking, and automated label printing
- Designed and built a real-time searchable address system with auto-completion and validation for origin/destination routing
- Implemented comprehensive return case management with approval workflows, monetary calculations, and automated email notifications
- Built responsive UI components including infinite scroll pagination, modal dialogs, and dynamic dropdowns using Phoenix LiveView
- Established development best practices including Storybook for component documentation, Credo for linting, and comprehensive test coverage
Senior Software Developer @ The Bricks
Apr 2023 – Mar 2024 ・ 11 months
- Solid.js, ProseMirror, CSS modules, golang
- Developed a number of improvements to rich text editing, including: syntax-highlighted inline and block code, hyperlinks and link previews, callouts, better emoji support, inline images, inline comments, animated checkboxes, font size picker
- Implemented new chat interface, improving UX above and beyond the designs
- Implemented reactive user onboarding tour system and tutorials
- Designed and implemented global search
- Product management: found dozens of UX friction points, documented and described for team to work on
- Prototyped and shipped LLM-based text generation and image generation via Stable Diffusion
- Improved UX for dragging of images from/to multiple parts of the app, including from user filesystem and external apps
- Improved paste of text and images throughout the app, including parsing
text/htmldata on clipboard for rich text editor - Dozens of miscellaneous UX tweaks to improve look and feel
Self-employed @ chicko.digital
Oct 2022 – Mar 2023 ・ 6 mos
Software Developer @ Stripe
Apr 2021 – Sep 2022 ・ 1 yr 6 mos
- Designed and architected a system called ProductConfig for massive configuration changes to Stripe Connect subusers
- Designed and implemented data structure for modeling Stripe payment method configurations, used to launch Automatic Payment Methods
- Collaborated with tax teams to extend infrastructure for configuring W8 and W9 tax forms
- Provided guidance and worked with other teams to further evolve ProductConfig infrastructure
Staff Software Developer @ Shopify
Oct 2013 – Mar 2021 ・ 7 yrs 6 mos
- Developed features and maintained frontend app using Batman.js and CoffeeScript as part of admin team
- Worked with team to develop new server-rendered system (Twine & TurboGraft) that reduced mean development time and simplified bug fixes. Later, I open sourced these libraries
- Rewrote a large amount of Batman.js code to new paradigm using Twine & TurboGraft.
- Created TV dashboards displaying live sales data and office announcements at Waterloo office
- Worked remotely on various projects including: improved shipping zones UI, Shopify Shipping carrier-calculated rates, bulk shipping label purchasing and printing system, multi-location inventory, and PDF packing slip printing system
- Advocated for use of opt-out beta flags, published article on engineering blog
- Developed working processes for converting admin pages to React
- Worked on Checkout team for ~3 months, improving inter-team communication and unifying frontend and backend code, designed a layer to progressively replace dummy data with newly implemented API, developed server-side hydration layer for initial data and scheme to manage and persist Checkout state in localStorage
- Mentored colleagues in the Shopify mentorship programme
UI Developer @ Exinda Networks
Aug 2012 – Aug 2013 ・ 1 yr
- Worked on large-scale single-page JavaScript app using Backbone, Underscore, jQuery, Handlebars, and i18n.js
- Designed and implemented interactive modules such as line and bar graphs
- Used node, bbb, jshint, and other developer utilities, and wrote an intercepting proxy in Ruby and Apache2 load balancers to simulate low-latency and unreliable-link scenarios
- Created dummy data utilities and fixtures for acceptance tests, and used Git as part of daily workflow
Freelance Web Developer @ Uptown Creative Inc
Dec 2009 – Aug 2012 ・ 2 yrs 8 mos
- Specialized in creating clean, cross-browser, interactive HTML5 websites at Uptown Creative Group by hand from image mockups
- Created static and CMS-driven sites with a focus on interactive maps, Yelp integration, weather integration, MLS search, filtering, and pagination
- Worked as freelance web developer, responsible for entire development phase including creating semantic HTML5 mark-up with HAML, minified CSS with SASS, image spritesheets, and jQuery
- Improved web accessibility knowledge by creating responsive layouts and mobile-aware sites with room for graceful degradation
Education
Bachelor of Computer Science, Co-op @ University of Waterloo
- Awarded University of Waterloo Merit Scholarship, 2006
For more projects and writing, please visit anthonycameron.com
Skills / Technologies
Solid.JS, React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SASS, GraphQL, Stable Diffusion, ChatGPT, Ruby on Rails, Ruby, Splunk, node.js, websockets, Next.js, Qwik, golang