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I am a Senior Software Engineer with a track record of delivering high-impact features across consumer-facing and platform products. I specialize in both front-end and back-end work, mentor junior engineers, and drive cross-team collaboration to ship reliable, scalable software. I am passionate about building clean, reliable software that directly improves user experience and product outcomes. I enjoy mentoring teammates, refining architecture, and continuously learning new technologies to solve complex problems at scale.…I am a Senior Software Engineer with a track record of delivering high-impact features across consumer-facing and platform products. I specialize in both front-end and back-end work, mentor junior engineers, and drive cross-team collaboration to ship reliable, scalable software. I am passionate about building clean, reliable software that directly improves user experience and product outcomes. I enjoy mentoring teammates, refining architecture, and continuously learning new technologies to solve complex problems at scale.

Philip Cole

Full Stack Developer, Back-End Developer, Front-End Developer, +1

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I am a Senior Software Engineer with a track record of delivering high-impact features across consumer-facing and platform products. I specialize in both front-end and back-end work, mentor junior engineers, and drive cross-team collaboration to ship reliable, scalable software. I am passionate about building clean, reliable software that directly improves user experience and product outcomes. I enjoy mentoring teammates, refining architecture, and continuously learning new technologies to solve complex problems at scale.…I am a Senior Software Engineer with a track record of delivering high-impact features across consumer-facing and platform products. I specialize in both front-end and back-end work, mentor junior engineers, and drive cross-team collaboration to ship reliable, scalable software. I am passionate about building clean, reliable software that directly improves user experience and product outcomes. I enjoy mentoring teammates, refining architecture, and continuously learning new technologies to solve complex problems at scale.

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I am a Senior Software Engineer with a track record of delivering high-impact features across consumer-facing and platform products. I specialize in both front-end and back-end work, mentor junior engineers, and drive cross-team collaboration to ship reliable, scalable software.

I am passionate about building clean, reliable software that directly improves user experience and product outcomes. I enjoy mentoring teammates, refining architecture, and continuously learning new technologies to solve complex problems at scale.

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Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer at Quora

May 1, 2022 - Present

Led modernization of Quora's frontend architecture by migrating core product surfaces from legacy Web node systems to a modern React and GraphQL stack, significantly improving developer experience and long-term maintainability. Spearheaded performance initiatives with measurement frameworks and budgets adopted across teams. Contributed to the launch of Poe, Quora's AI chat bot platform, building full-stack features including real-time chat UI in React/TypeScript and backend APIs for model orchestration and user session history. Implemented subscription management and paywall flows with Stripe across web and iOS. Redesigned the question-asking flow to streamline UX and refactored components to improve content quality signals. Built a localization framework enabling 24 languages with dynamic translation delivery. Created internal tooling for 18n workflows and mentored junior engineers.

Senior Software Engineer at IXL Learning

December 31, 2021 - September 25, 2025

Led internationalization efforts for IXL's math product by designing a framework to support translated content and audio across locales, expanding global reach. Designed and implemented backend infrastructure in Java for parsing and evaluating student answers, including enhancements to the expression grading engine and scoring logic. Built dynamic question generators enabling scalable, pedagogy-aligned content across skill levels. Collaborated with curriculum designers and QA to refine logic; migrated essential components to React for modularity. Implemented text-to-speech and audio translation integrations (e.g., Amazon Polly) to enhance accessibility, and developed tooling to streamline content management and asset generation. Contributed to data-driven diagnostics and progress analytics.

Software Engineer Intern at IXL Learning

July 1, 2018 - September 25, 2025

Built backend logic in Java for IXL's core question engine, including evaluation and feedback systems supporting millions of student responses daily.