Tyson Phillips
Senior Software Engineer, Backend at Upwards
Anaheim, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTyson Phillips is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building resilient backend systems and scalable APIs, currently enhancing access to childcare benefits at Upwards. He has a strong DevOps and observability background from Feedonomics, where he improved API error recovery and led HA infrastructure and migration planning to GCP. At LeadVenture he drove ecommerce performance, internationalization, and automation that reduced churn and boosted adoption, and at Phillips Data he ran full SDLC delivery while wearing engineering, project management, and DevOps hats. Tyson is pragmatic about embedding quality into the workflow—introducing GitHub Actions, git hooks, and SOPs to raise team efficiency and code quality. Based in Anaheim, he combines hands-on implementation with cross-functional collaboration, mentoring engineers and aligning technical work to clear business outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Cal Poly PomonaBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at California State University, Fullerton
Github Skills (60)
capistrano9
stripe-js9
random-string8
adyen8
session-store8
payment8
character-set8
recurly8
stripe-payments8
amazon8
session-management7
classes7
rest7
amazon-s37
stripe7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
phillipsdata/minphp-form
Apr 2017 - Jun 2019
Form Builder Library
Contributions:6 PRs, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 2 months
form-builderbuilder
phillipsdata/minphp-bridge
Aug 2016 - Nov 2024
Bridge for minPHP 0.x to 1.0 projects
Contributions:9 reviews, 29 PRs, 17 pushes in 8 years 5 months
phpbridge
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