Summary
Philip Chou is a software engineer based in San Francisco with a dozen years of professional experience and over five years focused on building cloud-native microservices in Java, Kotlin, Go, and Python. He has contributed to production platforms at Elsevier, Eversight, and now Instacart, designing JSON:API-backed content graphs and developer tooling that enable personalized learning products and smoother inner-sourcing. His background in bioengineering and an MSE focused on data science from the University of Pennsylvania gives him a strong quantitative bent—he has a history of turning research prototypes into patentable tools and dramatically optimizing data-processing workflows. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs hands-on coding with systems thinking around testing, CI, and Kubernetes-based deployment. Colleagues rely on him to bridge domain knowledge and engineering to ship robust APIs that expose complex content relationships.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE), Bioengineering, Minor CIS, Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE), Bioengineering, Minor CIS at University of Pennsylvania
English, Chinese