Cody Phillips
Principal Backend Engineer And Tech Lead at Epic Games
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCody Phillips is a Principal Backend Engineer and Tech Lead with 17 years of experience building large-scale backend systems, currently leading Identity Platform efforts at Epic Games. He has a strong track record across gaming and consumer tech—including senior engineering and lead roles at Blizzard and Zillow—designing reliable, production-grade services and data platforms. Known for blending hands-on coding with technical leadership, Cody thrives on solving distributed-systems and identity challenges while mentoring teams to ship robust solutions. Based in California with a BS in Computer Science from Cal Poly Pomona, he brings deep institutional knowledge from long-tenured roles and a pragmatic, product-focused engineering style—plus an unexpected affinity for ICEE-fueled late-night shipping.
17 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Cal Poly Pomona
Github Skills (184)
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async9
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
blesta/proration
Jul 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:1 release, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
calculatorjavascript
phillipsdata/tictock
Jan 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:1 release, 21 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year
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