# Phil Saam

> Sr. Software Engineer @ Pinterest

Location: Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/philsaam

At Pinterest, I lead the design and delivery of an AI-first internal developer platform that supports hundreds of engineers across product, data, and infrastructure teams. My work focuses on building and maintaining a monorepo internal tooling ecosystem that enables rapid development of internal applications, workflows, and dashboards with shared primitives and paved paths.  

My expertise lies in developer platforms, CI/CD, and AI-enabled workflows, with a strong commitment to balancing the needs of engineers with long-term architectural strategies. I strive to enhance developer experiences and create scalable, resilient platforms tailored for efficiency and innovation.

## Work Experience
### Sr. Software Engineer @ Pinterest
Jan 2024 – Present
- Lead the design and delivery of an AI -first internal developer platform supporting hundreds of engineers across product, data, and infrastructure teams

- Built and maintain a monorepo internal tooling ecosystem, enabling rapid development of internal applications, workflows, and dashboards with shared primitives and paved paths

- Act as a technical point of contact for internal platform strategy, balancing short-term developer needs with long-term architectural direction

### Senior Software Engineer @ Sincere Corporation
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024

### Senior Software Engineer @ Botkeeper
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Built complex interfaces utilizing React, NodeJS, and MongoDB, creating long-term maintainable and scalable code using TDD and TypeScript for an AI assisted accounting platform
- Led the conversion of a large legacy JavaScript codebase to TypeScript, resulting in increased code reliability and developer experience. Established type standards and best practices.
- Mentored and trained developers
- Continued migration from a no-code app using Retool to an in-house coded application
- Expanded, improved, and rebuilt existing components, addressing major tech debt hurdles to clean and improve code performance.
- Contributed across the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code review, source control, build, test, deploy, and operations.

### Senior Software Engineer @ SharpLink
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
- Led the development of multiple high-traffic (500k+ users) fantasy sports web apps for major sports leagues and networks. Primarily used React and TypeScript to create server-side rendered apps and provide an excellent user experience.
- Mentored and trained junior developers throughout the app development process, from concept to completion, while adhering to tight deadlines.
- Selected appropriate technologies to provide the required functionality for a diverse set of games and apps, and utilized caching, CDN, AWS, Docker, and Webpack to ensure reliable and high-performing apps at scale.
-Developed long-term, maintainable, and scalable codebases using test-driven development and modern functional React components and hooks-based development, while also maintaining and updating class-based components on legacy projects.
- Rebuilt and improved existing games and apps by refactoring and modernizing aging code for clean, bug-free, and performant code.
- Worked collaboratively with multiple teams and developers to establish an efficient CI/CD pipeline and Agile development process, interfacing with clients and teammates using Slack, Jira, and Abstract/Zeplin.
- Demonstrated in-depth experience with server-side rendering technologies such as Next JS to create fast and efficient applications.
- Utilized various React state tools, including Redux, React Context, and React-Query, to build complex, smooth user interfaces using styled components, SCSS, CSS, and other tools, mastering the subtleties of CSS and using it to dynamically render complex app states and changes.

### Software Engineer @ Long Leaf Designs
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020


## Education
### University of Vermont


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/phil-saam
- Website: https://philsaam.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-22