Phillip Roman is a data science graduate student and former U.S. Army satellite communications operator with eight years of hands-on experience maintaining mission-critical national infrastructure. He spent over seven years at the FAA managing and upgrading National Airspace System hardware across remote and high-density environments, developing deep expertise in fault isolation, signal-flow diagnostics, and cross-functional project leadership. Now pursuing an MS in Data Science at Drexel, he is translating operational reliability and logistical problem-solving into reproducible MLOps pipelines, data engineering, and automation. An active contributor to open-source Java tooling, he improved broadcast efficiency and configurability in a widely used Java-WebSocket server, showing practical backend impact. Phillip combines disciplined, field-proven resilience with a growing toolkit in Python, SQL, DVC, and CI-driven deployments, making him a strong candidate for short-term co-ops in MLOps or data engineering. He also brings an uncommon blend of austere-environment adaptability and formal business training from Harvard Business School Online.
8 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS Data Science, Master of Science - MS Data Science at Drexel University
CORe: Credential of Readiness, CORe: Credential of Readiness at Harvard Business School Online
Bachelor's Degree Aviation/Airway Management and Operations, Bachelor's Degree Aviation/Airway Management and Operations at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Post-Baccalaureate Student Computer Science & Mathematic, Post-Baccalaureate Student Computer Science & Mathematic at University of Central Florida
Study Abroad Summer International Marketing, Study Abroad Summer International Marketing at Florence University of the Arts
Associate's Degree General Studies (Mathematics focus), Associate's Degree General Studies (Mathematics focus) at Florida SouthWestern State College
Military Occupational Specialty (25S): Satellite Communications Systems Operator-Maintainer Electronic Communications and Network Engineering, Military Occupational Specialty (25S): Satellite Communications Systems Operator-Maintainer Electronic Communications and Network Engineering at US Army Signal School (Fort Gordon)
A barebones WebSocket client and server implementation written in 100% Java.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:19 reviews, 23 commits, 32 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Phillip primarily contributed to the WebSocket server implementation. Their work included adding and documenting methods for broadcasting data using ByteBuffers, optimizing the existing broadcast methods, and removing duplicate code. They also made changes to allow users to configure the maximum number of pending connections, which included adding methods and an attribute for this functionality. Further, they removed unused and deprecated imports, and replaced deprecated Integer constructor usages.
Contributions:23 commits, 8 PRs, 17 pushes in 8 months
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