Staff-level software engineer focused on cloud-native architecture, microservices, and scalable identity/auth solutions. Builds production-grade systems using Kubernetes, serverless workflows, and observability best practices. Experienced leading migrations, SRE initiatives, and automation pipelines while reducing costs and improving reliability across backend and infrastructure platforms.

Andy Pham Pham

Staff-level software engineer focused on cloud-native architecture, microservices, and scalable identity/auth solutions. Builds production-grade systems using Kubernetes, serverless workflows, and observability best practices. Experienced leading migrations, SRE initiatives, and automation pipelines while reducing costs and improving reliability across backend and infrastructure platforms.

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Staff-level software engineer focused on cloud-native architecture, microservices, and scalable identity/auth solutions. Builds production-grade systems using Kubernetes, serverless workflows, and observability best practices.

Experienced leading migrations, SRE initiatives, and automation pipelines while reducing costs and improving reliability across backend and infrastructure platforms.

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Work Experience

Staff Software Engineer at Power School
November 1, 2020 - Present
Led architecture design and development for PowerBuddy AI using Python, React, and serverless technologies to ensure scalability, maintainability, and performance. Refactored legacy monolith systems into microservices and deployed on Kubernetes to improve team velocity and uptime. Designed and implemented a proprietary identity provider using OAuth2 for centralized authentication and authorization across multiple applications. Engineered a reusable serverless stack for real-time alerting with response plans and escalation workflows to optimize resource utilization and availability, reducing costs by 35% versus prior third-party tooling (NewRelic + PagerDuty).
Senior Software Engineer (Infrastructure) at Power School
June 1, 2018 - November 1, 2020
Developed backend infrastructure services using Golang to improve scalability and performance. Led migration of legacy infrastructure to Kubernetes, automating deployments via GitHub Actions and CI/CD pipelines. Owned SRE initiatives, improving pipeline health and observability through metric-driven alerts and dashboards. Enhanced monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry. Built automation processes, deployments, and maintenance using Docker and Jenkins. Collaborated with security teams on network hardening and IAM least-privilege strategies.
Software Engineer II at SimplyHired
March 1, 2017 - June 1, 2018
Built and optimized Python microservices for job search and recommendation systems. Improved reliability for Java-based services by implementing logging, monitoring, and alerting using AWS CloudWatch and ELK stack. Optimized API performance by reducing response time through Java multithreading and database query tuning. Troubleshot production issues with focus on AWS infrastructure.
Software Engineer I at SimplyHired
May 1, 2014 - March 1, 2017
Automated labeling processes and created plug-and-play tools used across the Scaled Operations organization using Golang, TypeScript, Python, and Pandas. Built RESTful APIs in Java and Python to support job search and recommendation functionality. Implemented web scraping solutions using Python and BeautifulSoup to extract job listings from multiple sources. Delivered BI analysis on CPC and CPI using Python, Pandas, and scikit-learn to improve monetization.

Education

BS Computer Science at University of Texas at Austin
August 1, 2011 - May 1, 2014

Qualifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
January 11, 2030 - August 3, 2026
AWS Certified Developer – Associate
January 11, 2030 - August 3, 2026
AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty
January 11, 2030 - August 3, 2026
AWS Certified Security – Specialty
January 11, 2030 - August 3, 2026

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Education, Computers & Electronics

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