Anthony Noel
Technical Solutions Engineer & Full-Stack Developer with 4+ years delivering production systems for government and healthcare clients
About
I'm a full-stack engineer with 4+ years building and delivering production software at scale. At Dimagi, I architected healthcare applications for state government agencies — including the Colorado Behavioral Health Administration and New Jersey Department of Health — serving millions of residents across critical public health programs. I also built an internal QA automation tool that compressed testing workflows from 2–3 days to under 4 hours.
Outside of that, I'm the founder and sole engineer behind Creole Pale, a Haitian Creole audio dictionary and language learning platform. I designed and shipped the full stack from scratch — Django REST API, PostgreSQL, AWS S3, and a custom fuzzy search engine — live in production. It's a project close to my roots, built to make the language more accessible to learners and the diaspora community.
I'm currently pursuing a B.S. in Computer Science at Western Governors University and open to remote backend and technical solutions engineering roles.
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Projects
Creole Pale
Haitian Creole learning platform with production dictionary search.
DjangoDjango RESTReactJavascriptPostgreSQLAWS
Live Demo · GitHub
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Problem: Most Haitian Creole resources lack audio and ignore the language's many valid spelling variations — a barrier for diaspora learners who grew up hearing it but never learned to write it. No searchable audio dictionary existed that handled approximate or partial input.
Technical Decisions: Implemented a two-stage search pipeline: accent-insensitive exact lookup first, falling back to PostgreSQL trigram fuzzy matching (pg_trgm) for misspelled or partial input. Stored audio files in AWS S3 to decouple media delivery from app compute — keeping the database lean and audio playback fast. This avoided the overhead of Elasticsearch while still delivering typo-tolerant results for a solo-maintained app.
Key Challenges: Tuning the trigram similarity threshold so valid spelling variations matched without surfacing irrelevant results — too strict and legitimate alternate spellings got dropped, too loose and noise flooded the results.
Result: Live in production with a growing dictionary (100+ entries) and 300+ monthly searches from diaspora learners.
Savannah Latin Dance
Class registration and payment platform with Stripe integration and role-based access control.
ReactStripeFirebase
Live Demo · GitHub
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Problem: A local Latin dance studio needed a way to manage class registration, collect payments, and control access — without paying for an off-the-shelf platform that didn't fit their workflow.
Technical Decisions: Built role-based authentication to separate student and instructor views. Integrated Stripe for class payments with webhook handling to keep enrollment status in sync with payment events.
Key Challenges: Ensuring Stripe webhook events were processed reliably and only once — handling duplicate event delivery, out-of-order events, and failed processing without double-enrolling students or missing a confirmed payment.
Result: Live in production, handling class registration, payments, and role-based access for a real dance studio — built to replace a manual enrollment process.
Open Source
HaitiCityPortal — Haitians in Tech
Fixed a data categorization bug where municipal services (street cleanup, impound/towing) were incorrectly appearing in the Infrastructure Directory — items that should only render on the Services page under Maintenance & Safety. Reproduced the issue locally with a cloned database, isolated the cause, and submitted a pull request.
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Enterprise Work
Dimagi — Senior Technical Project Analyst - Technical Solutions (2021–2025)
Delivered production healthcare applications on CommCare for Colorado BHA, New Jersey DOH, Alameda County, and Pima County — serving millions of residents and thousands of daily active users.
Designed integrations across 10+ CommCare applications, external databases, analytics tools, and third-party systems. Built a QA automation tool that compressed testing workflows from 2–3 days to under 4 hours. View Commit →
Colorado BHA Case Study
Pima County Case Study
Skills
Languages: Python, JavaScript, SQL
Frameworks: Django, React
Tools: Git, PostgreSQL, Docker, REST APIs
Cloud: AWS