Experience

October 2018 – present

Staff Software Engineer Google Inc.

May 2016 – October 2018

Senior Software Engineer Google Inc.

January 2015 – May 2016

Software Engineer III Google Inc.

July 2013 – December 2014

Developer Programs Engineer III Google Inc.

January 2013 – June 2013

Assistant Professor of the Practice Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech

May 2011 – December 2012

Instructor and Academic Advisor Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech

August 2003 – May 2011

Graduate Teaching/Research Assistant Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech

Skills

Android C C++ CSS HTML iOS Java Javascript Objective-C Photoshop Python Ruby Ruby on Rails Swift

Education

2012

Ph.D. in Computer Science and Applications, Virginia Tech
(Dissertation: From Intuition to Evidence: A Data-Driven Approach to Transforming CS Education)

2006

M.S. in Computer Science and Applications, Virginia Tech
(Thesis: PhETA: An Interactive Tool for Analyzing the Quality of Digital Photographs from Edge Transitions)

2003

B.S. in Computer Science, Virginia Tech

Publications

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• Dereferee: instrumenting C++ pointers with meaningful runtime diagnostics.

  Anthony Allevato and Stephen Edwards. In Softw: Practice & Experience, 44: 973–997.

• Pythy: improving the introductory Python programming experience.

  Stephen Edwards, Daniel Tilden, Anthony Allevato. In Proceedings of the 45th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. ACM Press, Atlanta, GA, 2014.

• Transforming introductory computer science projects via real-time web data.

  Austin Bart, Eli Tilevich, Simin Hall, Tony Allevato, Clifford A. Shaffer. In Proceedings of the 45th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. ACM Press, Atlanta, GA, 2014.

• A new event dispatch strategy to eliminate dispatch “glue”.

  Anthony Allevato and Stephen Edwards. In Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science. Paris, France, 2013.

• RoboLIFT: engaging CS2 students with testable, automatically evaluated Android applications.

  Anthony Allevato and Stephen H. Edwards. In Proceedings of the 43rd SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. ACM Press, Raleigh, NC, 2012.

• Discovering patterns in student activity on programming assignments.

  Anthony Allevato and Stephen H. Edwards. In Proceedings of the 2010 ASEE Southeastern Section. Blacksburg, VA, 2010.

• Comparing effective and ineffective behaviors of student programmers.

  Stephen Edwards, Jason Snyder, Manuel Pérez-Quiñones, Anthony Allevato, Dongkwan Kim, and Betsy Tretola. In Proceedings of the fifth international workshop on Computing education research workshop. 2009.

• Dereferee: exploring pointer mismanagement in student code.

  Anthony Allevato, Stephen H. Edwards, and Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones. In Proceedings of the 40th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. ACM Press, Chattanooga, TN, 2009.

• Mining data from an automated grading and testing system by adding rich reporting capabilities.

  Anthony Allevato, Matthew Thornton, Stephen H. Edwards, and Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Educational Data Mining. Montréal, QC, 2008.

• IDE support for test-driven development and automated grading in both Java and C++.

  Anthony Allowatt and Stephen H. Edwards. In Proceedings of the Eclipse Technology Exchange (eTX) Workshop at OOPSLA 2005. October 2005.