Philip Weiss
Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Systems at Netflix
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolPhilip Weiss is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems, currently at Netflix, with a decade of experience building reliable, large-scale services. He rose through multiple roles at Airbnb from intern to senior engineer and holds a BS and MS in Computer Science (AI) from Stanford, blending academic rigor with production experience. Early internships at Facebook (working on Atom/Nuclide), Hulu and Tesla reveal a roots-in-tooling and frontend background that informs his focus on developer experience and observability. Philip favors iterative improvement—echoing Don Knuth’s wisdom—and often applies AI-minded reasoning to practical systems design to deliver scalable, maintainable infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Stanford University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (55)
javascript10
sql-parser10
parser10
text-editor10
electron10
windows10
optimizer10
linux10
peg10
editor10
react-component10
dates10
datepicker10
macos10
slider-component10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
philipfweiss/Shepherd-Guides
Jun 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:194 commits, 76 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
philipfweiss/OpenLinguistics
Jan 2018 - Jun 2019
Contributions:103 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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