Summary
Alexander Phillips is a Sr. AI Systems Failure Analysis Engineer with nine years of engineering experience, currently diagnosing and debugging AI server designs at AMD using data-driven analysis and scripting in Python and Bash. He holds an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UT Austin with a focus on machine learning and data science, and his graduate research applied optimization to real-world pandemic response problems. Known for turning noisy system telemetry into actionable root-cause insights, he bridges hardware, firmware, and software teams to reduce failure rates and improve reliability. Comfortable across C, C++, Java, SQL, and MATLAB, he blends theoretical rigor with practical tooling to automate analysis workflows. A dedicated mentor and collaborator, he brings academic depth from national lab internships to production-scale failure investigations. Off the clock he’s an accomplished pianist and percussionist, a creative outlet that sharpens his pattern recognition skills in engineering contexts.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin