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Phillip Chaffee

Phillip Chaffee

Senior Software Engineer

San Francisco, US
443-553-5272

Background


About

About

Self taught software engineer with 6 years of experience. Expertise in Rails, Typescript, Postgres, React, REST APIs, and authentication. Passionate about clean code, types, health/health tech/nutrition/exercise, and community.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Senior Software Engineer, VoiceOps

    Jan, 2021 - Present

    Lead daily engineering stand-up, bi-weekly sprint planning, and sprint retrospective. Collaborated with the other senior engineers on new software architecture including a call audio integration API, a microservice that aligns text and audio, and an overhaul of our transcription UI.

    • Implemented SAML SSO allowing our customers to authenticate to the VoiceOps platform using their own identity provider. Used by 20% of our clients.

    • Collaborated on a project to redesign our transcription process that reduced transcription cost by 90%, bringing our cost per audio minute from $.20 to $.02.

    • Fulfilled on call duties in real time, resolving 5+ production issues each month.

    • Wrote a <a href='https://www.npmjs.com/package/assemblyai-v2-node-sdk'>Typescript SDK</a> for the AssemblyAI API.

  • Software Engineer, VoiceOps

    Jan, 2020 - Jan, 20211 year

    Collaborated with the other engineers on:

    • The VoiceOps frontend. A platform for call center managers and coaches to view the transcripts of their employees calls, review labels about what happened on each call, and do live coaching via comments in the app.

    • A mechanical turk style transcription marketplace that supported 10k+ daily users logging in and performing manual transcription, transcript grading, and transcript tagging tasks.

    • A data pipeline that transformed raw audio data into transcribed and tagged text.

    • Multiple customer integrations that imported data from our customers into our data pipeline.

  • Software Engineer, Chatham Financial

    Jan, 2017 - Jan, 20203 years

    The Platform Engineering team maintains and revamps the underlying architecture used by other development teams across Chatham. We work on things like our in-house REST API template, our document storage system, permissions API, etc.

    • Implemented supplier initiated SAML SSO for flagship website. Used internally and by multiple clients.

    • Moved the cookie authentication and management from a C# legacy library to a .NET Core microservice that could be used by static web applications. Supported 10k+ requests/sec.

    • Collaborated on changing our document storage solution from a file system storage system that needed to sync across all offices to a blob storage system that only synced between two offices for failover reasons. Used to store all internal documents and documents uploaded to our web offering by clients.

  • Software Test Engineer, Chatham Financial

    Jan, 2016 - Jan, 20171 year

    Helped guide a small team of developers in creating the correct software for complex hedge accounting situations. Learned the hedge accounting system and constantly asked pointed questions to help guide the team’s thinking.

    • Collaboratively lead a project to create an internal test dashboard that aggregated every software team's test results into a single platform. The platform allowed users to view their test results including screenshots of failed UI tests and re-run the tests, no matter the test runner, directly from the platform.

    • Wrote automated acceptance/regression tests in C# and Ruby to confirm the software’s functionality daily.

Projects Experience

Projects Experience

  • Nand 2 Tetris

    Jan, 2015 - Present

    Built a virtual 16-bit Von-Neumann computer from N-And logic gates.

Skills

Skills

  • Backend

    Ruby

    Node.js/Typescript

    C#

    Python

    SQL

    Redis

    NoSQL

  • Frontend

    React

    Angular

  • Tools

    Git

    Linux

    AWS

    HashiCorp

Certificates
Awards

Awards

  • Gold Medal of Achievement (Eagle Scout) , Royal Rangers

    Awarded on: Jan 01, 2013

    Earned the Gold Medal of Achievement in Royal Rangers, a program that mirrors boy scouts. The GMA has all the same requirements as the Eagle Scout Award.