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I’m Phong Cao, a software engineer with 10+ years of experience building scalable web platforms, cloud-native systems, and enterprise applications across startups and high-growth environments. I specialize in backend and full-stack development with Java, microservices, AWS, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, and modern APIs, and I enjoy building products that simplify complex real-world operations through automation and clean user experiences.…I’m Phong Cao, a software engineer with 10+ years of experience building scalable web platforms, cloud-native systems, and enterprise applications across startups and high-growth environments. I specialize in backend and full-stack development with Java, microservices, AWS, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, and modern APIs, and I enjoy building products that simplify complex real-world operations through automation and clean user experiences.

Phong Cao

Full Stack Developer, Back-End Developer, Web Developer, +2

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I’m Phong Cao, a software engineer with 10+ years of experience building scalable web platforms, cloud-native systems, and enterprise applications across startups and high-growth environments. I specialize in backend and full-stack development with Java, microservices, AWS, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, and modern APIs, and I enjoy building products that simplify complex real-world operations through automation and clean user experiences.…I’m Phong Cao, a software engineer with 10+ years of experience building scalable web platforms, cloud-native systems, and enterprise applications across startups and high-growth environments. I specialize in backend and full-stack development with Java, microservices, AWS, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, and modern APIs, and I enjoy building products that simplify complex real-world operations through automation and clean user experiences.

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I’m Phong Cao, a software engineer with 10+ years of experience building scalable web platforms, cloud-native systems, and enterprise applications across startups and high-growth environments. I specialize in backend and full-stack development with Java, microservices, AWS, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, and modern APIs, and I enjoy building products that simplify complex real-world operations through automation and clean user experiences.

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Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer at Tesla

May 1, 2023 - Present

Led manufacturing and innovation workflows for clean energy products, focusing on reliability, throughput, and cross-system consistency. Drove automation-oriented platform updates, refined service interfaces, and coordinated with adjacent teams to strengthen end-to-end user journeys. Expanded platform capabilities across production workflows, improving throughput by 18% through targeted refactoring and interface hardening. Refined backend boundaries for long-running jobs to improve automation reliability and reduce manual handoffs by 31% across release cycles. Standardized deployment and monitoring playbooks to enable multi-market growth.

Software Engineer at Google

December 1, 2019 - March 1, 2023

Built and optimized production systems across web and mobile applications, machine learning, cloud, and related contexts to deliver transparent user experiences and support scalable growth. Automated pipelines to reduce overhead by 27% and improved daily data processing reliability to 99.3%. Enhanced multi-service API integrations for mobile apps, improving error recovery under variable network conditions. Tightened performance budgets; reduced tail latency by 19% and enabled safer deployments under higher traffic.

Software Engineer at Arista Networks

June 1, 2015 - December 1, 2019

Delivered cloud computing and virtualization improvements for big data clusters and HPC environments. Expanded internal tooling, improving operator efficiency by 35% through automation and clearer diagnostics. Refined cluster workflow orchestration and upgraded production readiness. Implemented service telemetry across distributed components, reducing issue resolution time by 41%. Improved deployment automation and upgradability under tight maintenance windows, and increased throughput by 16% during peak loads.

Research Assistant at Stony Brook University

September 1, 2014 - January 1, 2015

Collaborated on a web game project, applying component-based architecture and design patterns. Led design and implementation phases, balancing maintainability with performance. Implemented core algorithms (Dijkstra’s shortest path, dynamic programming) to improve route computations for gameplay; introduced observer-based state updates to enable transparent debugging during iterative feature experiments.