Campbell Phalen
Software Engineer at Jane Street
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCampbell Phalen is a software engineer based in Chicago with nine years of hands-on experience building robust backend systems and student-focused web products while studying Networked Social Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He has shipped production software at scale through internships and roles at Jane Street, Facebook, Citadel, Blizzard, and Penn Labs, where he led teams and produced the official student organization registry. Equally comfortable optimizing low-latency SQL queries for high-volume datasets and designing server-side matchmaking and scheduling systems, he blends quantitative rigor with product-minded engineering. At Penn he taught functional and advanced object-oriented programming, signaling strong communication and mentorship skills alongside technical delivery. Early-stage startup work and a finalist placement in the New Venture Challenge show he pairs engineering craft with entrepreneurial curiosity and user-centered design.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of Chicago Laboratory SchoolsUniversity of ChicagoBachelor of Science in Engineering - BSE, Networked Social Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Engineering - BSE, Networked Social Systems Engineering at University of Pennsylvania
Chinese, English
Github Skills (23)
listings10
django10
django-rest-framework10
react10
jekyll7
celery6
python5
dune4
github4
api3
django-framework3
modular3
ocaml3
linter3
django-blog2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cphalen/IDCard
Feb 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
cphalen/CProgramming
Mar 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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