Phillip Huff
Staff Software Engineer at InStride
East Longmeadow, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolPhillip Huff is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable, data-heavy systems across Amazon Alexa, Microsoft, and healthcare and education tech startups. He combines a strong Java/C# backend pedigree with hands-on ML, Hadoop, and NLP experience, having processed terabytes of Alexa data and built high-throughput pipelines. Phillip has driven architecture and observability improvements that yielded 100x scaling gains and led cross-functional initiatives to remediate security and availability risks. He is interested in research-driven approaches—genetic neural networks, ensemble boosted learning, and description logics—and published open-source tools for large-scale game data analysis (magicsim/atmasim). Based in Massachusetts, he now focuses on ingesting and normalizing complex partner data using Python, TypeScript, MongoDB, and AWS at scale.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Montpelier High SchoolBachelor's Degree Computer Science with Departmental Honors with minor in Philosophy, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science with Departmental Honors with minor in Philosophy at Stony Brook University
Japanese, English
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Github Skills (28)
shadow10
stat10
ejb6
asp-net6
jsf6
checkout6
ajax6
simulation6
msbuild6
pedigree5
visual-studio-code-extension5
javascript4
survival4
nodejs4
intellisense4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
phroph/magicsim
Jan 2017 - Feb 2019
Shadow priest tailored tool for simming stat weights in a fight-aware manner using SimulationCraft.
Contributions:22 releases, 57 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years
gameweightstailoredstatshadow
phroph/PriestPy
May 2017 - May 2021
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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