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Phil Gray

Overview

Fullstack engineer with expertise in serverless web services, automating development, JavaScript, and frontend.

Relevant Experience

04/2021 – present
McLean, VA

Capital One

Principal Associate Software Engineer – 07/2023 - present

Senior Associate Software Engineer – 04/2021 – 07/2023

Contributed to fullstack, cross-platform solutions such as a MFA flow for draft credit card applications, end-to-end KYC flows, serverless migrations, architectures, and re-architectures of microservices, and developer and customer service tooling.

09/2019 – 04/2021
Washington, DC

Generali Global Assistance North America

Fullstack Engineer, 04/2020 – 04/2021

Frontend Developer, 09/2019 – 04/2020

Developed frontend features and tooling, contributed to migrations to React and serverless AWS infrastructure. Initiated efforts to automate manual processes and embrace best practices for React, JavaScript, and testing.

07/2018 – 09/2019
Arlington, VA

National Capitol Contracting

ePublications Technical Specialist

Designed and developed interactive EPUBs and e-book plugins for language instructors at the Department of State Foreign Services Institute using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. Proposed and created a framework and dev server for quickly scaffolding, developing locally, testing on real and simulated devices, and bundling EPUBs on par with web frontend tooling.

04/2015 – 07/2018
Washington, DC

BSA | The Software Alliance

Independent Consultant, 11/2017 - 07/2018

Digital Manager, 04/2015 - 11/2017

Designed and developed frontend features, themes, emails, surveys, analytics, dashboards, and microsites using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, PHP, WordPress, static site generators, and frontend frameworks. Championed a transition to mobile-first responsive design.

Tools

TypeScript, Node, Python, Go, React, VueJS, CSS, Jest, Cypress, Nightwatch, Cucumber, AWS (Lambda, ECS, S3, SQS, DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, ElastiCache, CloudWatch, API Gateway), IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK), Docker, shell scripting

Certifications

AWS Solutions Architect Associate (2021)
AWS Cloud Practitioner (2020)
MCSD Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3 (2014)
Comp TIA Security+ Certification (2013)

Education

Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
B.A. English (2005 – 2008), minor in Writing, summa cum laude, 3.9 GPA