I am a senior software engineer with over 11 years of experience building scalable, cloud-native systems across media/streaming, finance, and SaaS platforms. I specialize in architecting microservices, designing scalable APIs, and developing event-driven data pipelines, with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and seamless system integration. I enjoy leading teams, guiding robust software design, and improving deployment pipelines. I’ve mentored engineers, introduced lightweight RFC processes, and built observability tooling to speed incident response and enable data-driven decisions.…

Kevin Phan

I am a senior software engineer with over 11 years of experience building scalable, cloud-native systems across media/streaming, finance, and SaaS platforms. I specialize in architecting microservices, designing scalable APIs, and developing event-driven data pipelines, with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and seamless system integration. I enjoy leading teams, guiding robust software design, and improving deployment pipelines. I’ve mentored engineers, introduced lightweight RFC processes, and built observability tooling to speed incident response and enable data-driven decisions.…

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I am a senior software engineer with over 11 years of experience building scalable, cloud-native systems across media/streaming, finance, and SaaS platforms. I specialize in architecting microservices, designing scalable APIs, and developing event-driven data pipelines, with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and seamless system integration. I enjoy leading teams, guiding robust software design, and improving deployment pipelines. I’ve mentored engineers, introduced lightweight RFC processes, and built observability tooling to speed incident response and enable data-driven decisions.

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Skills

Experience Level

JavaScript
Expert
TypeScript
Expert
React JS
Expert
Java
Expert
AWS
Expert
Spring
Expert
Kubernetes
Expert
Redis
Expert
PostgreSQL
Expert
Node.js
Expert
GraphQL
Expert
Golang
Expert
Docker
Expert
Python
Expert
Django
Expert
MongoDB
Expert
Spark
Expert
DynamoDB
Expert
Cassandra
Expert
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Language

Javanese
Fluent
Aragonese
Advanced

Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer / Team Lead at Netflix
October 1, 2021 - Present
Led design of a scalable microservices architecture for large-scale playback and implemented a distributed orchestration service for entitlement checks, session management, and CDN routing. Built high-throughput back-end services in Java (Spring Boot) and Go with Kafka and Apache Flink, applying TDD to improve scalability and resilience under peak traffic. Modernized legacy services to reactive Spring Boot WebFlux with fine-grained authentication and smart routing (Zuul 2, Eureka). Established scalable data and caching strategies with Cassandra, PostgreSQL and Redis, reducing latency. Built real-time observability tooling (React, Apollo, OpenTelemetry) for faster incident detection and MTTR. Enhanced CI/CD with Jenkins and Spinnaker to automate testing and deployments on AWS (EC2, S3) and AWS EKS. Mentored engineers and introduced RFC process to improve design feedback.
Senior Software Engineer (E5) at Netflix
April 1, 2019 - September 1, 2021
Built distributed playback telemetry ingestion processing trillions of events per day from hundreds of millions of devices, enabling near real-time playback health metrics across regions. Implemented AWS Lambda for lightweight event transformation and validation, offloading enrichment from core streaming services to improve elasticity. Developed low-latency gRPC microservices exposing real-time playback metrics to analytics/ML teams, reducing data lag from minutes to seconds. Automated multi-stage telemetry workflows using Netflix Conductor with schema validation, enrichment and aggregation. Designed data models and storage using Cassandra for sub-second queries and S3 for cost-efficient long-term storage. Improved ingestion latency and reliability by applying Resilience4j, tuning JVM GC and thread pools, and using Datadog APM for tracing.
Software Engineer at Banco Santander, S.A
November 1, 2016 - February 1, 2019
Developed Java (Spring Boot) and Node.js (NestJS) microservices for customer, account and transaction features, supporting real-time digital banking operations and high-volume processing. Implemented event-driven integrations using Kafka and RabbitMQ with RBAC and TLS-encrypted communication to securely synchronize data across banking, analytics and notification systems. Built Angular front-end applications integrated with secure REST and GraphQL APIs, using a modular micro-frontend approach. Contributed to migrating a legacy monolithic system into cloud-based microservices on GCP and Azure. Used GitHub Actions for CI/CD automation and applied DDD and event-sourcing patterns to improve modularity and release speed. Built data ingestion and ETL pipelines in Python using Airflow and Pandas for analytics and fraud-detection workflows. Added schema validation to maintain data integrity and support early anomaly detection. Improved database performance by optimizing Oracle DB indexes, tunin
Software Engineer (L3) at Asana
July 1, 2014 - September 1, 2016
Developed scalable backend RESTful APIs in Java (J2EE) and Node.js (LunaServer) to power Asana’s collaborative platform, handling complex client data synchronization and state. Built a multi-tenant system using Amazon DynamoDB for high-throughput, low-latency storage, with WebSocket-based pub/sub enabling asynchronous communication between services and external integrations. Migrated Luna UI framework to modern React/TypeScript, refactoring components into reusable React modules to boost UI performance and developer efficiency.

Education

BS in Computer Science at University of California, Santa Cruz
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2014

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Industry Experience

Media & Entertainment, Software & Internet, Financial Services