Anthony Ettinger

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Anthony Ettinger

Professional Summary

AI-native full-stack engineer and founder with 20+ years shipping production systems. Daily practitioner of AI-assisted development — Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, local LLMs. Repeatedly built from zero to shipped: payment gateways, security platforms, decentralized protocols, marketplaces. Strong JavaScript/Node, Svelte, React, APIs, blockchain front-ends. Former IBM, PayPal, Yahoo, Chegg.

Selected Projects

  • ThreatCrush — Open-source security automation platform. Threat-intelligence workflows for developers.
  • CoinPayPortal — Non-custodial crypto payment gateway. Merchant accounts, checkout flows, webhooks, escrow, reputation systems.
  • Infernet Protocol — Decentralized AI inference network. Distributed compute coordination, model routing, vLLM deployment.
  • Avenasea — Co-founded, served as CTO. Corporate travel platform.

Core Skills

  • Languages: JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, PHP, Perl, Go
  • Front-End: React, Svelte/SvelteKit, vanilla JS, Tailwind, accessible UI
  • Back-End: Express, Fastify, REST, webhooks, auth, service architecture
  • Data: PostgreSQL, Supabase, MongoDB, pipeline work
  • AI/LLM: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, RooCode, Copilot, local LLMs, RAG, vLLM
  • DevOps: Docker, GitHub Actions, Linux, NGINX, Railway, CI/CD
  • Web3: Ethers.js, web3.js, Polygon, wallet integrations, non-custodial flows
  • Testing: Vitest, Jest, Chai, component and E2E patterns

Work Experience

Profullstack, Inc. | Remote

Founder / Engineer (Mar 2018 – Present)

Founded and operate consulting and product studio. Built and shipped: security automation, crypto payments, distributed AI infrastructure, marketplaces, browser extensions, developer tools. Consult on JavaScript/Node, Svelte, React, APIs, blockchain front-ends, wallet integrations. Co-founded Avenasea (CTO), led product and engineering.

Prognos Health, Inc. | Remote

Principal Engineer (Mar 2021 – Jan 2022)

Led SvelteKit rebuild of healthcare underwriting UI. Shipped production components, improved data workflow usability for analytics teams.

IBM | Remote

Senior Software Engineer (Nov 2014 – Mar 2018)

Post-acquisition: rebuilt API Connect Editor from scratch. Established architecture patterns still in use. Drove internationalization, built global enterprise tooling, raised test coverage.

Chegg Inc. | Santa Clara, CA

Senior Software Engineer (Dec 2010 – Sept 2013)

E-commerce platform features for high-traffic education workflows. Dynamic front-ends from mocks in PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS. Test-driven development.

Yahoo | Sunnyvale, CA

Prototyper (Jan 2010 – Dec 2010)

Rapid prototyping with design teams. Responsive prototypes in jQuery, JavaScript, HTML, CSS. Mocked REST APIs for validation and user testing.

PayPal | San Jose, CA

Senior Web Developer (Oct 2003 – Jun 2006)

XML Presentation Tier for web architecture team. Perl, XML, JavaScript, HTML, CSS for large-scale payment platform interfaces.

Education & Ongoing Study

San Diego State University

B.S., Business Administration (1993 – 1998)

Currently studying distributed systems, parallel computing, fault tolerance, concurrency — MIT 6.824, Georgia Tech CS 7210, DelftX, Coursera/Rice HPC sequences.