Philip Vallone
Principal Software Engineer at NI (National Instruments)
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilip Vallone is a Principal Software Engineer based in Austin, Texas, with a decade of experience designing and delivering cloud-native, microservices-based systems at National Instruments. He currently leads a team of six building SystemLink Enterprise, leveraging Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, and ASP.NET Core to support validation and production test operations. Through progressive roles at NI—from intern to principal—he has shipped scalable services for time-series and package repositories, and driven desktop and service-side redesigns that improved developer and user workflows. Philip combines hands-on implementation skills with technical leadership, mentoring engineers while shaping architecture and delivery. Notably, his early internship work built distributed, AMQP-backed persistence that foreshadowed his focus on fault-tolerant, horizontally scalable systems. He holds a Computer Science degree from the University of Texas at Austin and stays grounded in pragmatic engineering over theoretical complexity.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (44)
kubernetes10
charts10
grafana10
vmware10
bitnami10
helm10
checker9
sink8
confluent8
markdown8
amazon7
kafka-connect7
aws-s37
amazon-s37
aws7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ni/kafka-connect-storage-cloud
Sep 2022 - Mar 2023
Kafka Connect suite of connectors for Cloud storage (Amazon S3)
Contributions:14 reviews, 6 PRs, 53 pushes in 5 months
gcpsinkkafka-connectoramazonazure-blob-storage
ni/systemlink-OpenAPI-documents
Jul 2018 - Nov 2019
Contributions:2 reviews, 112 commits, 34 PRs in 1 year 4 months
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