# Philip Pachigalla

> Engineering @ Sightglass

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/philippachigalla

~I'm keen on learning things~

## Work Experience
### Founding Engineer @ Sightglass
Jan 2023 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer, Financial Platform @ Guideline
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | San Mateo, California, United States
• Own payments and billing systems, including pricing packages, monthly invoicing, Stripe integration, and accounting ETL.

### Software Engineer, Filings + Automation @ Guideline
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Mateo, CA
• Responsible for in-house filing system for IRS/DOL Forms (5330, 5498, 5500, 8955).
• Maintain core infrastructure relating to participant experience.
• Develop new features pertaining to compliance testing, and plan setup.

### Software Engineer, Marketing Platform @ DraftKings Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Boston, MA
• Develop tooling allowing marketers to create ads on 3rd party websites, bonus offers for new and existing users, and campaigns to manage audience targeting and attribution. 
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to incorporate various rewards for bonus offers, enable user tracking, and utilize deep linking for mobile applications.
• Maintain an event-driven system, open to other teams, used to trigger bonus offers and notifications, as well as offer analytics a high-level user/product story.
• Manage API integrations with Adjust for mobile attribution, Braze for notifications and user profiles, and Segment for data warehousing.

### Software Engineering Intern, Integrations @ Plaid
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco, CA
• Maintained and improved existing integrations.
• Addressed and fixed client  issues with integrations for multiple banking institutions.
• Implemented native support for one of America's 25 largest banks, allowing its users to link to any financial consumer application that uses Plaid API.

### MDP Research Fellow @ UCI Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, Multidisciplinary Design Program
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Irvine, CA
• Worked with Dynamic Game Theory and Diffusion Models via a simulation wherein a number of simple artificial agents with their own probability distribution for color terms play a game based on color categorization.
• Presented which initial conditions engendered uniform color categorization across all the agents.

### Customer Experience Associate @ Old Navy
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | San Bruno, CA
• Assisted customers with clothing choices and sizes.
• Folded clothes; organized racks and sidewalls.
• Operated cash register.
• Managed fitting room.

### Peer Tutor @ Oceana High School
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Pacifica, CA
• Tutored high school students in Physics and Mathematics


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Applied and Computational Mathematics
UC Irvine

### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
UC Irvine

### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Economics
UC Irvine


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-05