Anna Anderson

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Software Engineer at Target · Search and ranking

Target
San Francisco, CA · PT (UTC-8)
3+ years experience
Rice University
English
CollaboratingOpen to work
Messaging unavailable

Overview

Currently at Target, where I work on search and ranking. Shipped 17 launches on the search team without a rollback. Most at home with XCTest and Lucene.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Roles in search and ranking
  • Collaborators for my side project
  • Questions about search and ranking
  • Second opinions on Lucene decisions
  • Working sessions on Scala
Please don't message about
  • Courses and coaching offers
  • Generic networking requests

Answers in batches on Fridays

Skills
XCTestLuceneA/B testingScala
CollaboratingLooking to collaborate
closes in 3 months

Looking for collaborators on an open-source A/B testing toolkit

Project
An open-source A/B testing toolkit
Skills needed
Data, A/B testing
Time commitment
A few hours a week
Outcome
Open-source release

No money involved, just a good project. Async-first.

San Francisco, CA · remote OKa/b testingxctestscala
Open
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 3 months

Open to Software Engineer roles at Series B edtech companies

Target roles
Software Engineer
Level
Senior
Industries
E-commerce, Healthtech
Work mode
Remote
Available
30 days notice
Work authorization
Authorized to work in the CA
What I'm looking for
A team that ships weekly and owns search end to end.
Not interested in
Contract-only roles

3 years in search and ranking. Strongest at XCTest and Scala. Available immediately.

San Francisco, CA · remote OKxctesta/b testingscala
Open

Experience

  1. Software Engineer
    Jan 2026 - Present
    Target · 9 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 29 minutes to under 4.
    • Shipped 23 launches on the search team without a rollback.
    • Reduced cloud spend on search by 24% in two quarters.
  2. Software Engineer
    Oct 2023 - Jan 2026
    Wells Fargo · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Reduced cloud spend on search by 30% in two quarters.
    • Moved 84% of search traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

Projects

Search and ranking benchmark
2025

Reproducible benchmarks comparing XCTest and Scala on real workloads.

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Education

  1. Rice University
    BA, Electronics and Communication
    2019 - 2023

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