# Philippe Balucan

> Software Engineer @ Benchling | B.S. Computer Engineering

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/philippebalucan

I’m a Backend Infrastructure Engineer at Benchling, building and scaling distributed systems and high-performance APIs for mission-critical life sciences applications. With expertise in Python, Go, and Ruby, I design secure, reliable backend systems that power impactful solutions. 🛠️

I specialize in Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS, ensuring scalable, resilient infrastructure. I’ve optimized autoscaling with Karpenter and managed service mesh traffic with Istio, keeping systems running smoothly at scale. Whether tackling authentication challenges or solving complex distributed systems problems, I thrive on turning engineering hurdles into seamless, innovative solutions. ⚙️

Driven by the real-world impact of well-designed infrastructure, I’m passionate about building systems that solve meaningful problems and deliver value. Always learning and iterating. 💡

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Benchling
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
Managing Kubernetes infrastructure at Benchling, optimizing autoscaling with Karpenter, and ensuring scalable, resilient systems for high-impact applications. A couple of projects that I've worked on:
• Secure network sandbox for running untrusted code (gVisor, Istio)
• Platform feature for GPU and NVMe workloads on Karpenter nodes enabling ML and high-performance data workloads

### Software Engineer III @ Stash
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024

### Software Engineer II @ Stash
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | New York City Metropolitan Area

### EEE Laboratory Assistant @ Electrical and Electronics Engineering Institute, University of the Philippines - Diliman
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020
• Performed the maintenance and inventory of the computers under various laboratories in the institute 
• Debugged and investigated complex hardware and software issues
• Optimized existing laboratory processes to increase efficiency

### Software Development Intern @ D.W. Morgan Company
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
• Implemented a notifier microservice Ruby to receive and send different payloads such as email, push notifications (Amazon SNS), and even SMS (Twilio)
• Attended a Tech Bootcamp about Full Stack Web Development (Git, Object-Oriented Programming, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, SQL (Postgresql), REST API, Microservices, HTML, CSS, SASS, Bootstrap)
• Researched and presented possible notification services 
• Created and performed unit tests for the microservice using Rspec
• Created documentation for the microservice and the tests done with it


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Engineering
University of the Philippines Diliman


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-11