Backend Engineer • 6+ Years • LabCorp

Dela Anthonio

I complete the migrations others abandon and serve as technical advisor to senior engineers

$1M+
Daily Revenue Enabled
$200K
Annual Cost Savings
99.9%
System Uptime
43%
API Performance Gain

Migration Expert

Successfully completed critical migrations that multiple teams failed to deliver

Self-Sufficient Services

Build services with monitoring, deployment, and documentation included

Technical Advisor

Trusted by senior engineers for observability and system design guidance

Signature Achievements

CI/CD Migration

Zero-downtime production migration

2023
  • Migrated a monolithic app to an in-house CI/CD pipeline
  • Migrated web traffic to a new domain for the app with zero downtime
  • Created playbook for future teams
KubernetesNginxCI/CD

Legacy Portal Decommissioning

$100k-$150k annual savings

2024-2025
  • Completed after 3+ years of failed attempts
  • Used New Relic for architectural discovery
  • Zero customer impact
New RelicDjangoReactAWS

Carrier Product Launch

$1M+ daily revenue enabled

2025
  • On-time delivery
  • 99.9% uptime since launch
  • Full-stack ownership
ReactDjangoRabbitMQPostgreSQL

MySQL 5→8 Major Upgrade

40k-50k annual savings

2024
  • Coordinated 15 teams
  • 30+ dependent services
  • Completed in maintenance window
MySQLDjangoPython

Technical Expertise

Backend Development

Expert
PythonDjangoREST APIsDjango REST FrameworkCelery

Infrastructure & Cloud

Proficient
AWSKubernetesTerraformDocker

Observability

Department Expert
New RelicCloudWatchOpenTelemetry

Data Systems

Proficient
PostgreSQLMySQLKafkaRabbitMQOpenSearch

Technical Leadership & Influence

Recognized as department's observability expert. Senior engineers regularly consult me on APM strategy, distributed system debugging, and performance optimization. Prevented ~60 production incidents annually through proactive monitoring and code review excellence (30+ reviews weekly).

Professional Experience

Software Engineer

Invitae / LabCorpFeb 2021 - Present
  • Technical advisor to senior engineers across multiple teams
  • Led critical migrations that were stalled for years
  • Established department-wide observability standards
  • Reduced incident resolution time by 70%

Software Engineer

InfosysFeb 2019 - Feb 2021
  • Built utility applications serving 100,000+ customers
  • Reduced production incidents by 50%
  • Improved query performance by 30%

Let's Connect

Looking for a backend engineer who ships self-sufficient services and completes challenging migrations? I'd love to discuss how I can contribute to your team.