# Nile Phillips

> swe @ figma • kleiner perkins fellow

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/nile

I like building things, working with data, cocktails, math, and teaching. Through software engineering and beyond, I want to make life better for the people around me and my larger community. 

If any of that resonates, I'd love to hear from you.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Figma
Jan 2024 – Present
product

a bit of work ⬇️

### Natural Language Processing Researcher @ Harvey Mudd College
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024
- Researched how companies' messaging on Twitter aligned with their economic and social actions, advised by Alexandra Schofield (HMC CS)
- Constructed a dataset of ~1M tweets from S&P 500 companies, trained and fine-tuned biterm topic models and BERT models, and wrote and presented multiple papers
- First-authored a paper presented at EcoNLP 2024 and presented a poster at Text as Data (TADA) 2023

### Engineering Team Lead @ Shopify
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024
LLM-driven product exploration

### Career Prep Fellow @ Management Leadership for Tomorrow
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023

### Scholar Finalist @ Neo
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023

### Software Engineer @ Figma
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023
FigJam - collaboration experience

### Engineering Fellow @ Kleiner Perkins
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022
Datacenter Software - predictive modeling, operational analytics

### STEP Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
VMware Engine - time series forecasting

### Teacher and Course Designer @ Blue Ivy Learning
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
Designed and taught a course called DIET!

Blue Ivy Learning gave students a foundation to continue exploring their academic interests during the pandemic and online classes to maintain and encourage high morale for learning.

### Data Analytics Research Intern @ Vision Source Insight Eyecare
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021
- Researched the effectiveness and viability of Orthokeratology as a treatment option for patients with high myopia and astigmatism. Culminated in a research paper summarizing methods and findings.
- Regularly collaborated with and demonstrated my work to non-technical advisors and staff members
- Worked on improving marketing efforts and facilitating specific aspects of the patient experience

### Sports Statistician @ Genius Sports
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021
- Collected, input, and managed data using in-house software
- Recorded and analyzed advanced statistics for local Division I NCAA men's basketball games and soccer games

### Pro Shop Attendant @ Bobby Jones Links
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- Served as the first employee representative of the golf course for every golfer
- Promoted merchandise sales within the golf shop and facilitate every transaction
- Managed shop cleanliness and order

### Starter @ Bobby Jones Links
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Smyrna, Georgia
- Facilitated the customer experience on course and ensure the course stays on the planned schedule for the day


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Mathematics and Computer Science
Harvey Mudd College

### Wheeler Magnet School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nilep

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Last updated: 2026-03-23