Phillip Lemons
Senior Software Engineer at Acrisure
Cedar Park, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhillip Lemons is a senior software engineer with 12 years of experience building backend microservices and leading cross-functional teams at companies from startups to enterprise scale. He specializes in Java/Kotlin services, AWS, Kafka, Postgres, and ElasticSearch, and has driven systems that handled millions of events per day and delivered large growth for products like Indeed Hire. Phillip pairs hands-on architecture and implementation with strong mentorship and cross-team communication, routinely guiding design reviews and improving onboarding and operational practices. His open-source work includes resilience-focused UX and offline-first improvements for Khan Academy exercises, showing an appreciation for user experience and reliability beyond core services. Based in Cedar Park, Texas, he balances technical rigor with interests that keep him resilient—social dancing, running, powerlifting, and reading fantasy. Colleagues describe him as someone who turns complex distributed systems requirements into practical, well-documented solutions.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
English
Github Skills (5)
localstorage10
javascript10
jquery10
ajax9
json8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Khan/khan-exercises
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
A (deprecated) framework for building exercises to work with Khan Academy.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 4 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Phillip primarily worked on enhancing the user experience by adding features to the exercise framework. They implemented a server queue to ensure that requests were sent to the server, even when the server was temporarily unavailable. Their contributions included modifying the `interface.js` file to handle queuing and retrying requests, improving the application's resilience to network issues and offline scenarios. Additionally, the user integrated local storage to persist hints and exercise progress, ensuring a smoother user experience during temporary disconnections.
khan-academy
lemonade512/philliplemons.com
May 2017 - Sep 2022
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 4 months
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