Introduction

Hey, I'm Anthony. I’m a software engineer based in Michigan (Go Blue!) with a background in building/operating large-scale systems and an enthusiasm for all things tech.

I previously worked as an L5 Software Development Engineer at Amazon, where I focused on backend systems for a high-traffic API platform used by selling partners + external developers. The work heavily focused on scalability, reliability, and developer experience.

After Amazon, I've taken a career sabbatical to pursue personal growth and learn new technologies. I’ve been building personal projects across web platforms, automation, and data-driven tools while learning about frontend development and AI integrations. Many of these projects are documented on the Projects section of this site. This period has been intentionally hands-on with a focus on learning, designing, iterating, and owning systems end-to-end.

Outside of engineering, travel has been a major influence on how I think about systems, culture, and problem-solving. Experiencing different cities, languages, and ways of living has reinforced my interest in building tools that are flexible, human, and globally relevant.

I’m motivated by thoughtful engineering, new perspectives, and work that compounds over time. If you're interested in working together, you can find more info about my professional experience on the Resume section or reach out on the Contact page.

Projects

My past and current side projects, each with a bit of context and a relevant visual. I include live links, public GitHub repos, and notable tech used alongside each project when applicable.

Post-College

Resume Revamped

I built Resume Revamped because I wanted a customizable resume design experience for my own job search. It lets you create highly customizable (and company-inspired) resumes with real-time interactive feedback. Building it end-to-end pushed me deeper into modern frontend development and design, while giving me hands-on experience integrating LLM-based features in a way I’d actually want to use.

A Pizza Michigan

I've always been known for my love of pizza, and this project was the result of a joke → spreadsheet → database → website. It was also a good opportunity to learn about designing database schemas and experiment with forms and Google's Maps APIs. If you have any favorite places, please leave them via the suggestions form on the site.

DuoCalculator

Duocalculator is a site/tool for helping users calculate the amount of time required to complete their target duolingo course.

Auction Notification Script

What started with a python script and a raspberry pi has developed into a full stack web application that includes user profiles, authentication, and notifications for listings across 5 different websites.

Personal Website

Over time I've learned a bit more about web development and I've updated my personal website to be a bit more modern and functional. I've also added a few more sections to the site.

College (Non-School Projects)

Mcity Video Processor

My work at Mcity was primarily implementing a pipeline in AWS Batch to process video footage from the self-driving shuttles. The pipeline runs a computer vision library called YOLO (You Only Look Once) with an underlying neural network called Darknet on a specified number of frames per video and uploads the labeled footage back to the source folder. Above is an example of YOLO's object detection on a picture from my first marathon.

Personal Website

This website has been a fun learning experience since I started with very little experience in HTML, JS, or CSS. I began with an existing structure and dug through the code to modify things and make it fit my own style. The picture above depicts the old website compared to the remodeled version.

Triple Boot Laptop

For my work at the university's self-driving test facility, I was working with EC2 containers running Linux. To keep testing consistent with the production environment we were using in AWS, I installed Ubuntu on my laptop to dual boot with Windows and Linux. Since I already had the two other largest operating systems, I decided to run MacOS in a VM and complete the trio / control my Apple devices from my laptop.

EECS Bullpen Website

The Bullpen is an office in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science building that houses many engineering student organizations such as the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Society for Women Engineers (SWE), and others. In order to promote collaboration and better coordinate the various organizations' use of the space, the president of IEEE asked me to create a website for reserving the bullpen and keeping a live calendar of events.

College (School Projects)

Secure File Server

The last project of my operating systems course (and my collegiate career) was a multi-threaded, secure network file server. The file server had a hierarchical file system that could contain files and directories and provided an excellent challenge in socket communications and data security.

Virtual Memory Pager

My project team for EECS 482 (Operating Systems) and I implemented a pager as part of the system's kernel to manage the virtual address spaces of processes. The main aspects of the project included support for swap backed pages, file backed pages, and moving pages in and out of physical memory for read/write commands.

Thread Library

For my upper level operating systems course, my project group and I implemented a thread library for use on a single CPU system. The main components/objects of the library were the threads, mutexes, and condition variables (CVs).

Disk Scheduler

For my upper level operating systems course, the first project involved writing a multithreaded program that could handle and service disk requests from multiple sources. An example output from the program is shown in the picture above.

Catanalyzer

Catanalyzer was our final project for my upper level computer vision course. The purpose was to use both deep learning and classic computer vision algorithms to analyze the state of a Settlers of Catan board from live video input and then overlay valuable information onto the video feed. This was intended as a fun supplement for experienced Catan players or a resource for new players.

Diag Defender

The Diag Defender was the final project for our embedded systems lab. It used a PixyCam mounted on the front to detect colorful objects and move the motors to chase them out of the area surrounding a block M on the ground. It also used another PixyCam with an IR sensor attachment to keep track of IR LEDs mounted on the ceiling and stay within its predetermined bounds.

Greple Search Engine

One of my favorite projects was also one of the biggest I've ever worked on. I was part of a team of 6 students that built a search engine from the ground up in C/C++. Greple was the result of many sleepless nights in the library and can return results from an index of over 3 million documents. My work primarily focused on the implementation of the web crawler, query parser, and constraint solver components of the engine.

Zookeeper

The Zookeeper project was practice in implementing Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) algorithms. The project was zoo themed, and this led to different scenarios like finding the most optimal route to feed the animals or the most efficient cyclical route for water distribution.

Log Manager

This project mainly involved constructing a system where the user inputs a file containing log entries and then uses the program to easily filter them. These excerpt lists were constructed using timestamp, category, and/or keyword searches on the logs within the system and then returned to the user.

Mine All Mine

For the Mine All Mine project, the setting is a grid (the mine) filled with rubble. The numbers in the grid represent the difficulty level of taking that path, and the goal of the project was to use a priority queue to find the path of least resistance for escaping the mine. There is also an option to have the program print relevant statistics, like the median rubble difficulty shown in the picture above.

Letterman

Letterman has the ability to take a custom dictionary of words as input, then uses a pathfinding algorithm to determine if there is a path between two specified words. These intermediate words have to have small differences - such as an added, subtracted, or changed letter - and must be valid words (in the context of the dictionary that the user gives).

Piazza Post Classifier

This Piazza post classification system was implemented using machine learning and natural language processing techniques. The program takes a dataset of prelabeled Piazza posts and learns by creating connections between common keywords and their labels. Unlabeled posts can be entered into the program and it will predict the appropriate label based on what it learned during training.

RPN Calculator

A Reverse Polish Notation (RPN) calculator is one that takes the arguments first, then the operation that is to be performed on them. This is a bit difference from today's common calculators, where the operation typically goes inbetween the arguments. For example, 7+4-3 would be written in RPN as 7,4+3-. This calculator was implemented using a stack data structure that I wrote.

Euchre Simulator

Euchre is a very popular card game among midwesterners. This project - which has gained a bit of a reputation in the University of Michigan's EECS department - simulates a Euchre game between 4 players. It has the ability to change the computer players' strategies, and there is an option of allowing a human to play the game as well.

Content-Aware Image Resizing

This project uses a seam-carving algorithm to calculate which pixels are the least important in an image, and then removes them. This allows the user to resize images in a way that changes the aspect ratio, but does so without distorting the image or losing valuable content.

Wind-Powered Turbine

My ENGR100 team fabricated a tri-bladed, savonius style wind turbine over the course of a semester. We went through the entire design process, with several reviews and prototyping stages. At the end, we brought our turbine to the roof of the Space Research Building and were able to generate enough power to support a lightbulb.

Travel

My happiest memories are with wonderful people in cool places. Currently documenting my travels at @antspassport

Travel Map

2026

Nashville

First time in Nashville and it did not disappoint. Plenty of drinks, great live music, and fun/interesting characters - but I also see why people only do it for a weekend at a time.

2025

Memphis

New Years with most of the Japan crew in a very unexpected setting. Highlights included a Memphis Grizzlies NBA game, the Bass Pro Shop Pyramid, and a rooftop NYE party with a lot of new friends.

Detroit

Quick little weekend trip over to Detroit to take part in the holiday festivities. It was bitterly cold, but downtown was buzzing as always. It's always a good time visiting the city and surrounding neighborhoods.

Reykjavík

Part of flying with IcelandAir is that they let you do an extended layover in the nation's capital to promote tourism, so that's what I did. This couple day stay in Reykjavík included a northern lights tour, many unique foods, and a relaxing day at Blue Lagoon.

Dublin

IcelandAir had a great deal on flights to Dublin, so I took advantage of the cheap flight to visit a new country that's been on my list for a while. The trip included a visit to the Dublin Castle, the cliffs at Howth, and many, many pubs.

Western Michigan / Traverse City

This long weekend around the mitten included friends from out of state, friends from college, and a beautiful wedding ceremony at a vineyard in Traverse City. The total city count included Grand Rapids, Saugatuck, Holland, and Traverse City.

New York City

It had been far too long without a visit to my favorite city. I saw one of my favorite artists (Dua Lipa), another broadway show (The Lion King), and tried some of the best tacos/pizza I've ever had. 10/10, no complaints.

Austin

My first visit to Texas was a weekend trip with my Longhorn friend and all of his hometown/college buddies. Scorching heat, mouth-watering BBQ + tacos, and a diehard football cult - Austin lived up to expectations.

San Juan

An unexpected trip to Puerto Rico with some friends to see one of the shows in Bad Bunny's PR residency. The beach was beautiful, the people were kind, and the music was amazing - I love Puerto Rico.

Chicago

This one was a quick trip out to Chicago for a Linkin Park concert my friend and I won lottery tickets to. The morning after we ended up meeting with another old friend of ours and enjoying the nice weather at Lincoln Park Zoo.

Northern Michigan / Cadillac

Bachelor party weekend for my childhood best friend. We rented a big cabin outside of Cadillac, MI and had a weekend filled with great food, dive bars, and bonfires.

Northern Michigan / Cheboygan

This one was a big group trip up to friend's family cabin for a "boy's trip" weekend. We spent a lot of time outside, at a local watering hole, and took a day trip to Cheboygan to check out my favorite brewery.

Portland

Super quick turnaround for this Portland trip, but it was worth it for a bar crawl birthday party and spending more time with the new friends I met on the last visit.