Summary
Clark Phillips is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building reliable, production-grade systems from the datacenter to Kubernetes. Based in Cedar Park, Texas, he excels at hands-on implementation while operating at the intersection of collaboration and communication to coordinate cross-team delivery. Skilled in Python, Django/DRF, GraphQL, Docker, Postgres and AWS (RDS, EC2, EKS, ECR) with Terraform and GitHub Actions, he focuses on reducing latency, automating operational work, and enabling zero-downtime deployments. His background ranges from real-time C++ systems for US Navy sonar to leading LIMS and rapid-response teams in genomics, giving him a pragmatic appreciation for both low-level performance and high-availability cloud services. Colleagues rely on him to translate ambiguous product needs into scalable APIs and infrastructure improvements that cut incident rates and developer toil.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Texas State University-San Marcos
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University
Portuguese, Spanish