Summary
Phong Lam is a Senior Software Engineer based in Redwood City with nine years of experience building scalable front-end and full-stack systems for companies from startups to large enterprises. He has driven major migrations and platform work—leading React upgrades, building internal libraries to unify web APIs, and architecting a distributed backend service with Cassandra on Azure for high-availability feeds. Phong brings deep UI craftsmanship alongside backend design, with a habit of learning something new every week and a portfolio of responsive apps and visualization components (including D3 work at IBM Aspera). His career spans product-driven roles at Walmart, DoorDash, Mysten Labs and now Circle, demonstrating an ability to move between rapid startup delivery and rigorous enterprise engineering. Notably, he pairs hands-on coding with pragmatic product collaboration, having served as the bridge between engineering, docs, and marketing on customer-facing SaaS products.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Biochemistry, Bachelor's degree Biochemistry at University of Washington
Advanced Immersive Full Stack Software Engineer - HRSF76, Advanced Immersive Full Stack Software Engineer - HRSF76 at Hack Reactor
English, Vietnamese