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Kevin Phan

@kevinphan2

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Seasoned senior software engineer specializing in scalable cloud-native systems.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior engineering roles where I can architect scalable cloud-native systems, lead teams, improve CI/CD and observability, and solve complex production challenges in a collaborative, outcome-driven environment.

I am a seasoned senior software engineer and team lead with extensive experience architecting microservices, scalable APIs, and event-driven data pipelines across media/streaming, finance, and SaaS platforms. I lead cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, and drive DevOps best practices to deliver reliable, high-performance production systems.

My work includes designing large-scale playback and telemetry systems, migrating monoliths to cloud-native architectures, and improving observability and CI/CD to accelerate delivery. I focus on practical, production-ready solutions that reduce latency, increase throughput, and enable faster feature delivery.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Staff Software Engineer

Netflix, Inc.

Oct 2021 - Sep 2025 (3 years 11 months)

Led an 8-person cross-functional team building scalable playback microservices on AWS; designed distributed orchestration and session management supporting millions of concurrent streams and improved observability with real-time dashboards.

Java Go Spring Boot gRPC Kafka Cassandra GraphQL OpenTelemetry

Senior Software Engineer

Netflix, Inc.

Apr 2019 - Aug 2021 (2 years 4 months)

Designed a petabyte-scale telemetry pipeline ingesting playback events using Java/Scala and Kafka Streams, reducing ingestion latency by 25% and enabling near real-time analytics for personalization and A/B testing.

Java Scala Kafka Streams AWS Lambda Cassandra Spring Boot Datadog Conductor Distributed Systems

Software Engineer

Banco Santander

Nov 2016 - Feb 2019 (2 years 3 months)

Developed cloud-native microservices in Java and Node.js for real-time digital banking, implemented event-driven integrations with Kafka/RabbitMQ, and migrated monoliths to GCP/Azure to improve reliability and scalability.

Java Spring Boot Node Kafka RabbitMQ GCP Azure Python Airflow CI CD

Software Engineer

Asana, Inc.

Jul 2014 - Sep 2016 (2 years 2 months)

Built scalable backend APIs and a real-time data pipeline using J2EE and Node.js, migrated UI to React/TypeScript, and implemented Redis-based distributed caching to support >1M requests/sec.

Java Node React TypeScript Redis MySQL RabbitMQ WebSockets DynamoDB

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

University of California, Santa Cruz

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

2010 - 2014

Completed a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at UC Santa Cruz from March 2010 to May 2014, focusing on software engineering and distributed systems.