Staff Software Engineer at Bird
Santa Monica, California
Sr Software Developer @ Hulu 2013-2015: Core Services Team. Backend work focused on increasing reliability, scaling out, and improving response times of internal APIs responsible for powering Hulu site/app functionality. Turning seconds into milliseconds and milliseconds into still-fewer-milliseconds. From February 2013 to November 2018 (5 years 10 months) Santa Monica, CAWeb Developer and Software Engineer @ Connexity...
Sr Software Developer @ Hulu 2013-2015: Core Services Team. Backend work focused on increasing reliability, scaling out, and improving response times of internal APIs responsible for powering Hulu site/app functionality. Turning seconds into milliseconds and milliseconds into still-fewer-milliseconds. From February 2013 to November 2018 (5 years 10 months) Santa Monica, CAWeb Developer and Software Engineer @ Connexity Full-stack design and development of Rails web application for client and admin management and reporting for ad network. Provided visibility into logged data from Hbase and PostgreSQL, as well as doing ad-hoc investigatory querying against large amounts of historical data in Hbase and HDFS flat files. Also worked on primary ad serving engine and clientside Javascript used to display ads. From November 2011 to January 2013 (1 year 3 months) Ventura, CAAnalyst (developer) @ Southwest Research Institute Worked on Java Servlets/JavaServer Pages web applications on the database, server-side, and client-side levels. Redeveloped existing static plotting pages, and introduced new ones, so that users could create the plots they wanted and make changes to previously created plots more quickly and with fewer clicks and page refreshes. Created a domain specific language using Ruby for making Planetary Data System archive label files in a clean, readable syntax to support quick development of project-specific label file creation programs. Developed server monitoring and reporting software to provide a nightly email summarizing statistics of interest for the group's servers. From May 2010 to November 2011 (1 year 7 months) San Antonio, Texas AreaStaff Software Engineer @ Bird 2020: Cross-functional role to both ship features for mission teams while also mentoring and increasing overall codebase quality bar, and designing composable systems and interfaces across system domains. Connecting and resolving communications gaps between Data and Product Engineering.2018-2019: Primarily focused on Data Engineering. Designing and building streaming data pipelines, for reliability, correctness, and low latency.I wrote up a brief intro to some of it here: https://www.ververica.com/blog/replayable-process-functions-time-ordering-and-timersAlso leading project implementation, managing technical backlogs, and getting to root cause on mysteries. Los AngelesSenior Software Development Lead @ Hulu July 2018 - present: Manager of Playstack team, responsible for services power video playback access and delivery to Hulu customers.January 2016 - July 2018: Manager on a new team tasked to develop cross-client features in a server-driven manner for rapid iteration and improvement, and quick delivery to customers. Found balance of client code ownership and client API-owning team to own the reference web client and work with device teams to onboard them to our new APIs and new business features. Grew team from 3 to 10 direct reports and expanded scope to be responsible for the hulu.com nonsubscriber experience as well by mid-2017. From January 2016 to November 2018 (2 years 11 months) Santa Monica, CAGraduate student @ Texas Tech University Graduate-level research in pattern recognition, specifically feature selection and Support Vector Machine classifiers for hyperspectral images.Primarily January 2009 - May 2010, with continuing work through August 2011 on a paper that was recommended in September 2011 for publication in Intelligent Data Analysis. MS degree still in-progress. From January 2009 to 2010 (1 year)
Hulu
Sr Software Developer
February 2013 to November 2018
Santa Monica, CA
Connexity
Web Developer and Software Engineer
November 2011 to January 2013
Ventura, CA
Southwest Research Institute
Analyst (developer)
May 2010 to November 2011
San Antonio, Texas Area
Bird
Staff Software Engineer
Los Angeles
Hulu
Senior Software Development Lead
January 2016 to November 2018
Santa Monica, CA
Texas Tech University
Graduate student
January 2009 to 2010
2013-2015: Core Services Team. Backend work focused on increasing reliability, scaling out, and improving response times of internal APIs responsible for powering Hulu site/app functionality. Turning seconds into milliseconds and milliseconds into still-fewer-milliseconds. 2013-2015: Core Services Team. Backend work focused on increasing reliability, scaling out, and improving response times of internal APIs responsible for powering Hulu site/app functionality. Turning seconds into milliseconds and milliseconds into still-fewer-milliseconds.
What company does Philip Wilcox work for?
Philip Wilcox works for Hulu
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Philip Wilcox is Sr Software Developer
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Philip Wilcox's colleagues are Jayson Bashforth, Maria Laposata, James Patton, Jie Liu, Ruslan Nazarenko, Michael Hiring, Craig Petzel, Kyle Walsh, Serj Kazar, and Derek Harland
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