Rod Howarth
Member Of Technical Staff at Anthropic
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolRod Howarth is a seasoned software engineer and technical leader with 15+ years delivering full-stack systems, now building developer experiences on the Claude platform at Anthropic. He has led teams and shaped product roadmaps at fast-growing fintech and SaaS companies, including a multi-year tenure evolving Connect APIs as a Staff Engineer at Stripe. Rod’s career spans backend, frontend, and native mobile work—he introduced a new backend stack and drove a company-wide rewrite at Invoice2go to boost delivery velocity and reduce maintenance. Comfortable in both hands-on coding and architectural leadership, he has a track record of turning complex regulatory and operational requirements into reliable, scalable APIs and services. Based in San Francisco, he combines pragmatic engineering with mentorship, having brought native mobile development practices into earlier companies and guided cross-functional teams through large transitions. Known for shipping measurable product impact, he quietly favors durable design choices that make long-term iteration faster.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology Software Architecture, Bachelor of Information Technology Software Architecture at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)
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Github Skills (62)
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oas10
webapi10
api-gateway10
rest10
serverless10
reverse-proxy9
artificial-intelligence9
kubernetes9
api-management9
devops9
ai9
decimal9
cloud-native9
job-queue9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
RodH257/RodsRevitUtilities
Feb 2011 - Jul 2011
Contributions:6 commits in 5 months
RodH257/RevitServerHtmlAdmin
Oct 2011 - Oct 2011
Contributions:8 commits, 1 comment in 2 days
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