Phil Romov
Software Engineer
Portrait
Experience
Senior Software Development Engineer
UPS Schedule, Time and Pay Program implementation
  • Design and develop data warehouse and processing pipelines to make multiple timecard systems visible on upsers.com (BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Cloud Run, ESP)
  • Automate file processing of company-wide payroll data (Bash, Pub/Sub, Cloud Run, ESP)
  • Develop and test internal and third party software to ensure UPS design requirements are met
  • Gather requirements for company-wide payroll transformation and document service level objectives and agreements (WorkForce Software)
  • Conduct Security Risk Assessments and Audits for enterprise technology across the organization (EY, Infosec)
  • Data analysis to continuously estimate future state complexity and volume for 1 million employees and beyond (VBA, Python)
  • Mentor teammates and peers on the subjects of software engineering and relational data

Senior Software Engineer
Gracenote, a Nielsen company Music & Audio
  • Work on data ingestion pipelines using open source technologies (Go, Elasticsearch)
  • Implemented the next generation of audio fingerprint ingestion (C#, Go, MySQL, Oracle)
  • Create data sets that powers Gracenote's customer-facing products (Oracle, MySQL, SSIS)
  • Actively engage in technology & design decision making
  • Help to operate and scale infrastructure in AWS
  • Review code and champion best practices across the team
  • Troubleshoot, root cause, and fix problems in a team environment

Senior Lead Developer
SESAC, Inc. (HFA, Rumblefish) Royalty licensing and processing
  • Lead architectural re-write of royalty invoicing and reporting engine (AWS, RabbitMQ, Laravel)
  • Designed and implemented single sign-on, role security, and application dashboards (Zend PHP, iSeries)
  • Data migration and ETL, including years of project/issue tracking and client statements
  • Technical mentor to all local and remote developers, extensive code review and operational experience
  • Client onboarding and custom software development: Apple, Google Play, Rhapsody, Spotify, others
  • SQL and NoSQL database and data warehouse design, Unicode data repair

Senior IT Consultant
Red Three Consulting, Inc. Reports you need from the software you already have
  • Developed a responsive application for delivering reports and maintaining custom data (PHP, JS)
  • Extensive DBA/DW, project management, and technical ownership experience (GL/AR, Dynamics GP, Lawson)
  • On-demand user and technical support, including training, disaster recovery, and ERP production issues
  • Reporting solutions with SSRS, SAP, Crystal Reports and others
  • Clients: HBO Video, Nature's Bounty, PVH, TGM Associates, D.F. King, Glamorise, others

Bioinformatics Developer
Research Foundation, CUNY Comparative genomics reveals long, evolutionarily-conserved, low-complexity islands in yeast proteins
  • with Fubin Li, Peter N. Lipke, Susan L. Epstein, and Wei-Gang Qiu
  • Customized sequence alignment tools to analyze yeast genomes (C, BLAST)
  • Interactive visualization of low complexity genome structure (Java)
Most proud of
Improving code and architecture
Data-driven program design, considering software and hardware as a whole

Making it go faster
Reducing processing time from weeks to minutes

Agile teamwork
Pair programming, code review, training and mentoring: no remote developer is too far!

Research and development
Always interested in learning new systems, from COBOL and RPG to AI and QC
Education
B.S. in Computer Science
City University of New York
Languages
English
Native
Russian
Native
Skills
20+ years
PHP, JS, SQL
10+ years
AWS, Python, Ruby, VBA, COBOL

5+ years
Go, GCP, Azure, Java, Docker, Spark, Kafka, Redshift
Learning!
HCL, GPT