# Phil S. > Staff Software Engineer at Vistar Media Location: Austin, Texas, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/phils ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Vistar Media Jan 2024 – Present | Austin, Texas, United States ### Backend Services Lead @ Airship Syndicate Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 ### Senior Software Engineer @ Flyclops Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Greater Philadelphia Area Worked within the Unity game engine to fix bugs and add new features to an 8-year-old mobile game version of various domino-based analog games. Expanded a project to move as much general social and app behavior out of a legacy Domino app and into a multiplayer game platform. Used React Native, Go Mobile, and Flutter at different points in development. Promoted to overall Project Manager in May of 2020 while also continuing to work as a senior engineer. Coordinated closely with design and testing teams to ensure that implementation pipelines were simple, efficient, and evaluable, and to discover and solve UX problems in a pragmatic way. Maintained a Create JS based Gin Rummy game built using a reactive programming paradigm via RxJS. ### Contract Engineer @ Sirvo Studios Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 Resolved bugs and added new gameplay features in preparation for a large cliffhanger resolving content update for the Apple Arcade RPG, Guildlings. Overhauled existing CloudKit save system from the ground up while maintaining backward compatibility in order to meet new requirements from Apple that were not supported by the previous CloudKit API. Optimized Bug reproduction and Developer/Designer/Tester handoff by creating a system to make public CloudKit saves at any point in play, and created tools to extract saves for direct in-engine Unity usage. ### Software Engineer @ Vistar Media Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Greater Philadelphia Area Lead Agile teams of up to nine engineers across a variety of technologies to ensure weekly updates to software and infrastructure. Developed and oversaw various frontend systems in JS/CoffeeScript/TypeScript languages using Backbone, React, Flux and Redux. Implemented REST Servers, ETL Pipelines, and a variety of tools using Scala, Java, Golang, C# and Python. Processed Terabytes of Geospacial data using Apache Spark and Scala. Maintained varied infrastructure on AWS through S3, EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, OpsWorks, SQS, SES, CloudFormation, RDS, Redshift, DynamoDB, Elasticache, IAM, EMR, Lambda, API Gateway and ECS. ### Technology Consultant @ Thomson Reuters Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Greater Philadelphia Area Configured instances of a KYC banking application to meet client needs using Javascript and SQL queries as part of an Agile team. Collaborated with users across various business units and countries to provide application support and hone business requirements. Developed strategic enhancements to the overall software platform using Java. ### Operations Engineer @ Wingspan Technology Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Blue Bell, Pennsylvania 19422 Administrated and troubleshot server software and user access to network resources for a pharmaceutical industry managed service. Deployed and configured server stacks using Python scripts, Puppet configuration management, and Cobbler install server. Created operations procedures for use by other employees in the company. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Wingspan Technology Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Blue Bell, Pennsylvania 19422 Analyzed Oracle and PostgreSQL databases to plan the migration of backend data between software services provided by the company. Implemented a series of tools using Scala, SQL Scripts, and Bash Scripts to achieve a cross-system data migration. Crafted internal tools for developers and analysts at the company. ### Software Engineer @ Mazoof Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Greater Philadelphia Area Cooperated with a three person team using iterative development techniques in order to create an interest based social network. Implemented MySQL to PHP ORM layer for various aspects of a comprehensive web application. Collaboratively designed user interface toolkits and various database schema. Tested user interface toolkits and database interfaces written by myself and other programmers. ### Desktop Support Intern @ SEPTA Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Greater Philadelphia Area Supplied local and remote technical support to various environments throughout the Philadelphia area. Employed remote administration tools to manage end user resource access, as well as to provide quick and unobtrusive technical service. Prepared software for around sixty computers during division upgrades, and gave technical instruction and close support to updated users. Interacted with a five employee group to provide service to around 3000 employees in SEPTA’s headquarters. ### Help Desk/ Web Support Intern @ National Park Service Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | 200 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106 Provided technical support to over one hundred end users of various levels of technical skill. Customized computers with the software needed for individual employees based on their specific jobs and departments within the National Park Service. Utilized Numara’s Footprints ticketing system implemented by the National Park Service to ensure an efficient distribution of labor. Collaborated with a six person team where we shared technical knowledge and allocated resources to ensure problems were resolved quickly. ## Education ### B.S. in Computer Science Temple University Jan 2009 – Jan 2013 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/phil-s-963b2a31 --- Source: https://flows.cv/phils JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/phils/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22