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Corey Phillips

@coreyphillips

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I build high-throughput distributed backend systems for mission-critical workloads.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to build and operate large-scale, high-throughput backend systems where reliability, observability, and resilient distributed architecture matter. I value close collaboration with SRE and platform teams, technical design ownership, and opportunities to improve production systems.

I've built distributed backend platforms at CareHarmony, Adswerve, FR8relay, and Smiley Technologies, using Java, Go, Kafka, Kubernetes, and AWS to support high-throughput, mission-critical workloads. At CareHarmony, I increased processing capacity by 43%, reduced p95 processing latency by 34%, and reduced cascading failures by 36% through resilient event-driven APIs.

I design partitioned, observable, and reliable services across PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, and Elasticsearch, with hands-on experience in incident response, architecture reviews, capacity planning, and technical mentorship. I partner closely with SRE and platform teams to turn production lessons into stronger systems, runbooks, and reliability improvements.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Senior Distributed Systems Engineer

CareHarmony

Feb 2023 - May 2026 (3 years 3 months)

Architected high-throughput distributed services using Java, Go, Kafka, Kubernetes, and AWS, increasing processing capacity by 43%. Designed data partitioning and replication strategies, implemented resilient event-driven APIs, and led incident response and architecture reviews.

Java Go SQL Kafka REST APIs Microservices PostgreSQL Redis MongoDB Elasticsearch AWS Kubernetes Docker Istio Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry Git CI CD Load Testing Chaos Engineering

Distributed Backend Engineer

Adswerve, Inc.

Apr 2021 - Dec 2022 (1 year 8 months)

Engineered distributed event-processing services using Java, Go, Kafka, Kubernetes, and AWS, increasing sustained event throughput by 39%. Architected partitioned data workflows, developed resilient APIs, and implemented production observability and incident analysis.

Java Go SQL Kafka REST APIs Microservices PostgreSQL MongoDB Redis Elasticsearch AWS Kubernetes Docker Istio Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry Git CI CD Profiling Benchmarking Load Testing Chaos Engineering

Backend Platform Engineer

FR8relay

Jul 2018 - Nov 2020 (2 years 4 months)

Developed high-throughput backend services using Java, Go, Kafka, Kubernetes, and AWS, increasing event-processing throughput by 35%. Designed partitioning and replication patterns, engineered event-driven APIs, and automated platform delivery with CI/CD.

Java Go SQL Kafka REST APIs Microservices PostgreSQL Redis MongoDB Elasticsearch AWS Kubernetes Docker Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry Git CI CD Capacity Planning Profiling Benchmarking Load Testing

Backend Software Engineer

Smiley Technologies, Inc.

Nov 2017 - Jun 2018 (7 months)

Developed backend services using Java, Go, REST APIs, PostgreSQL, and AWS, improving transaction processing efficiency. Engineered asynchronous event services, designed data-access patterns, and implemented resilient API workflows.