# Philip L. > Software Engineer @ Klaviyo Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/philipl I'm a software engineer with 4 years of professional experience, specializing in full-stack web development. I have expertise in a variety of languages and frameworks, including C# (.NET), JavaScript (React, Vue), and Python (Django). I have worked in a variety of agile environments where I have developed robust and performant software. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer II @ Klaviyo Jan 2024 – Present | Boston, Massachusetts, United States Data Infrastructure ### Software Engineer @ Red Arris Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States • Collaborated remotely with an institutional investor team with $10B+ AUM to design a greenfield data warehouse. • Developed ETL pipelines in Azure Synapse Analytics and Azure SQL Database to aggregate and process 1M+ rows of holdings data spanning 30+ years, sourced from 200+ fund managers and 2000+ funds in disparate formats and layouts, allowing investment managers to gain comprehensive insights on their portfolios. ### Software Engineer @ Paragon Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States • Architected robust backend systems interfacing with the Twitter API and ListenNotes API, enriching the product’s content offering by adding 10,000+ tweets and 500+ podcasts every month. • Enhanced the user experience by updating 4 highly visited pages (responsible for 80%+ of all traffic) to serialize query parameters, enabling users to bookmark search filters and laying the groundwork for server-side saved filters. • Implemented server-side pagination for 4 frequently called API endpoints, replacing client-side pagination and decreasing the request-response cycle time for those pages by 10x, from an average 5s to 500ms. • Utilized Datadog to support product stability by creating 5+ dashboards and 20+ alerts, monitoring API endpoint performance, database activity, and scheduled tasks, enabling the team to promptly address errors and instability. • Developed API endpoints and a user-friendly rich text editor for the product’s internal dashboard, enabling the research team to add 150+ reports to the product as inline content, previously only available as PDF files. • Modernized the backend system that delivers scheduled email notifications to 200+ customers with 60 minute resolution, improving robustness by resolving inconsistencies with handling timezones and daylight savings time. ### Software Engineer (Co-op) @ DraftKings Inc. Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States • Modernized an A/B testing API by re-architecting it as a scalable microservice, replacing the existing monolithic backend and jQuery frontend with a robust C# backend and React frontend. Integrated local caching and Redis to minimize API response times, supporting 100+ simultaneous experiments under heavy traffic. ### Teaching Assistant @ Northeastern University Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States • Courses: Object-Oriented Design, Fundamentals of Computer Science 1/2 • Offered reinforcement of course material and pointers on homework during weekly office hours. • Guided students through lab problems during lab sessions that accompany lectures. • Reviewed, graded, and provided feedback on homework submissions, similar to code reviews. ### Verification & Validation Engineer (Co-op) @ Medtronic Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States • Joined the Verification & Validation team, responsible for planning and executing software testing, supporting test engineers, and producing test reports for submission to the FDA to demonstrate that software was validated and software requirements were verified. • Presented a prototype of a continuous integration system, designed to automatically run integration tests to perform verification of software requirements and collect the test results in a central location. • Developed a Bamboo plugin to present test results in a more accessible format. • Supported test engineers by contributing features and patches to the test framework based on their feedback. ### Systems Integration & Validation Engineer (Co-op) @ Starry, Inc. Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States • Joined the Systems Integration & Validation team, responsible for developing automated tests to validate the system requirements for the company’s hardware and software products. • Created a test framework to aggregate and deliver test results to TestRail. Integrated existing test suites with this framework to provide teams with an easy-to-interpret overview of the status and health of their projects. • Developed a new test suite to test the settings synchronization feature on the company’s router product. • Refactored and restructured existing test suites, decreasing overall run time, lowering network usage, and improving readability. ## Education ### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science Northeastern University ### High School Diploma Commack High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/philiplin1 --- Source: https://flows.cv/philipl JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/philipl/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-28