About

I’m a Staff / Lead Frontend Engineer based in Portland, OR. Fifteen years of experience, at BreakAway Data, Microsoft, Mozilla, McAfee, and agencies before that. I’ve spent most of that time on data-intensive products: analytics platforms, editorial surfaces, live-capture systems, personalization. The data is complicated. The user-facing surface needs to feel simple. The space between is where I thrive.

I care about the parts of engineering that decide whether a tool is something you want to use, or something you have to use. Accessibility. Performance. Code that the next engineer to touch it will thank you for, not curse at. Those choices stack up. They become the defaults a team works from, and a team’s defaults are the experience the user gets.

Beyond shipping features, I build teams. At Pocket I founded the frontend accessibility practice, ran the hiring loop, mentored an engineer through a promotion, onboarded new engineers, and held the team’s rituals through multiple leadership transitions. Daily emoji check-ins, monthly lightning talks, retros that one teammate described as a form of group therapy. I’ve never had a manager title. I lead anyway. I lead through relationships and mutual respect, because that’s how I want to work and because it’s what I believe good teams actually need.

Outside work I cook, sing karaoke badly, play piano slightly better, and sew. I’m a parent. I care about software that respects the people using it.

Say hello: anthonyliddle@gmail.com