Andrew PotterStaff Engineer at Anima Virtuality

Anima Virtuality

Staff Engineer2021 – 2024

• Personally developed or provided guidance on all software at Anima
• Worked with the founders to define the product roadmap and technical strategy at all stages of development
• Designed, implemented, and operated all backend services and cloud resources, including containers, functions, load balancers, and databases
• Wrote and deployed smart contracts in Solidity for Anima NFTs
• Created repeatable and secure infrastructure with Terraform for all cloud resources
• Set up re-usable CI/CD pipelines for all projects with GitHub Actions
• Created the Anima marketplace website, allowing customers to buy Mirror NFTs with either fiat or crypto
  • Used Next.js, Typescript, and React for a fast, accessible frontend and flexible backend with noSQL database
  • Integrated with third-party providers for authentication and payment processing
• Built the backend for the Mirror iOS app, letting players view their NFTs in AR and evolve them at certain real-world locations
  • Deployed Node.js services and functions for APIs, reliably minting NFTs, and various other async tasks
  • Interacted with the blockchain (Infura) for minting NFTs, fetching NFT properties for viewing, and for evolving NFTs
  • Integrated with Apple DeviceCheck to increase confidence in the location-based evolution feature
• Developed the Onlybots website, API, and iOS app, which gave users virtual robot pets they could have a conversation with
  • Built the website with React and Three.js for an immersive, retro-futuristic experience powered by your GPU
  • Used Node.js, Typescript, and Express for the API powering the website and the iOS app
  • Developed the iOS app with Swift and SwiftUI, enabling augmented reality voice-to-voice conversations with bots
  • Created a custom engine for the ChatGPT API, allowing for unique bot personas and extensive prompting and memory features

Cox Automotive (Dealer.com)

Lead Software Engineer2018 – 2021

• Provided daily support for internal teams as a subject-matter expert on AWS, devops, and software development best practices
• Designed, delivered, and operated highly available and high-throughput REST services in AWS from the ground up
• Identified and fixed issues with site speed and security in all parts of the application stack
• Dramatically increased security of systems by focusing heavily on network security and IAM permissions
• Created Kotlin/coroutine application for laptop configuration/updates with graph-based task dependencies and idempotent tasks
• Designed and implemented an AWS-native, resilient, and repeatable Jenkins installation on ECS and the CasC Plugin
• Mentored other developers on both soft and technical skills

Senior Software Engineer2015 – 2018

• Pioneered a microservice deployment pattern on ECS with blue/green deployments and CI/CD pipeline
• Created patterns for writing and managing Terraform projects in a secure, DRY, and deterministic way
• Designed, developed, and operated AWS-native Java/NodeJS microservices as examples for other teams
• Developed multiple full-stack Angular/ReactJS developer tools used for server management, project generation, etc
• Created AWS-native application secret storage pattern and NodeJS CLI management tool on top of SSM Parameter Store
• Built a distributed, stateless, single-page application authentication system with drop-in libraries based on JWT/JWKs

Software Engineer (SE1, SE2)2013 – 2015

• Helped design and develop a remote application configuration and secret storage system
• Maintained and operated core Java services used for website configuration
• Assisted in debugging and resolving developer environment and application deployment issues

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