Phil Nova
Staff Software Engineer at Meta
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolPhil Nova is a staff software engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale, revenue-driving systems in Silicon Valley, currently leading Reels infrastructure at Meta after a string of senior engineering and tech-lead roles at Google. He combines full‑stack fluency (Node.js, Go, Python, React, C++, PostgreSQL/MongoDB) with deep cloud and ML-infrastructure experience—having been a founding engineer and TLM for BrightGraph, which provided data-driven efficiency for Google’s ML training and serving. Phil has repeatedly set technical direction for teams (up to 15 engineers), shipped consumer-facing products at scale (Grasshopper to >1M users), and briefed executives and boards on business-impacting insights. Based in San Francisco, he publishes side projects at philnova.io and github.com/philnova, reflecting a practical curiosity that spans mobile, backend, and ML-adjacent systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Neurobiology and Neurosciences, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Neurobiology and Neurosciences at University of California, San FranciscoBachelor of Science (B.S.), Bachelor of Science (B.S.) at Stanford University
Spanish
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Github Skills (60)
typescript10
difference9
javascript9
wkwebview9
typescript-definitions9
dom9
dts9
delta8
sortable8
drag8
in-app-updates8
webview8
json8
chrome-custom-tabs8
type-check7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
philnova/Coursework
Feb 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:68 pushes in 6 months
philnova/crispy
Feb 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:44 pushes in 6 months
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