Experience

Hydrasoft.io

• Utilities

• Founder / CTO / Architect / Advisor

  • May 2014 - Present

  Greater New York City Area I work with startups from ground zero where I write code, mentor, and advise on software architecture, infrastructure, product development, and technology strategy.


SuperCircle
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Co-Founder / CTO

  • Apr 2021 - Present

Applico
• United States
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Technical Advisor

  • May 2019 - Present


Luminary Media

• United States
• Media Production

• Co-Founder / CTO

  • Feb 2018 - Nov 2019

  Greater New York City Area As a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Luminary, Phong leads core technology teams across Software Development, Technical Operations, Startup Technical Culture Development, and Agile Teams (Web, Mobile, Platform, Data Science). He is responsible for the end-to-end software architecture, infrastructure, and scalability of Luminary's applications and platforms.



Gilt Groupe

• United States
• Consumer Goods

• Co-Founder / VP Infrastructure / VP Engineering

  • May 2007 - Mar 2016

  Greater New York City Area Early • Co-Founder and 1 of 2 founding technical engineers to a +1B dollar startup. • Led architecture and software systems development; last Co-Founder to transition out upon exit. • Built out initial systems for all of Gilt until launch: email system for vendor communications, warehouse, and software system to manage warehouse on portable devices, administrative backend, & public website. • Built out core administration site, frontend dev needs, and data reporting. •… Show more Early • Co-Founder and 1 of 2 founding technical engineers to a +1B dollar startup. • Led architecture and software systems development; last Co-Founder to transition out upon exit. • Built out initial systems for all of Gilt until launch: email system for vendor communications, warehouse, and software system to manage warehouse on portable devices, administrative backend, & public website. • Built out core administration site, frontend dev needs, and data reporting. • Constructed all the reporting objects for queries, aggregating data, and reports. • Built out infrastructure for production systems from first day to last day at Gilt, from both direct and indirect roles. Mid • Developed efficiency and performance methodologies for query tuning; load balancers/caching to increase performance and routing for a micro services environment. • Executed overhaul and rewrote the file system to statically serve files with pre-generated content. • Migrated Gilt’s tech infrastructure to suit the needs of our systems; proponent of introducing many tools and systems to enable team efficiency and streamline tech culture. • As VP of Engineering, actualized and led the development of Gilt’s Park and Bond (men’s full retail) product within three months. • Restructured and rewrote discount system, business dev tools, implemented loyalty programs and promotion systems for credits. Late/Exit • Focused on infrastructure; executed full company migration and Gilt stack to Amazon Web Services. • Implemented LXC support to Apache CloudStack as an evaluation for running in-house cloud system. • Integrated PagerDuty with New Relic as monitoring and alerting system. • Developed from a 2-man team to 10-15+ engineering teams; mentored, managed, and trained many engineers. • Built the initial Mobile App, renegotiated contracts, hired, managed vendor relationships. • Led in both technical and business capacities from startup to 15M users, +1000 team members, +600M in revenue, +1B in valuation. Show less



Convio Inc / GetActive Software

• Principal Software Developer

  • Jul 2003 - May 2007

  San Francisco Bay Area • Led the architecture infrastructure team through data warehouse development and efficiency practices for two foremost eCRM software/services vendors within NPO sector. • Development of email delivery system for enabling 50-100M messages (800+ NPO clients) using TCL, Java, and Oracle to Convio/GetActive clients to accelerate the development of new product functionality. • Enabled and modulated high performance tuning of internal systems. • Developed suite features that include email… Show more • Led the architecture infrastructure team through data warehouse development and efficiency practices for two foremost eCRM software/services vendors within NPO sector. • Development of email delivery system for enabling 50-100M messages (800+ NPO clients) using TCL, Java, and Oracle to Convio/GetActive clients to accelerate the development of new product functionality. • Enabled and modulated high performance tuning of internal systems. • Developed suite features that include email messaging, fundraising, events, community, and website management. • Restructured database tables and brought performance improvement to higher levels of efficiency. Show less



Futuredex Inc.

• United States
• Software Development

• Senior Software Developer

  • Jan 2002 - Sep 2002

  San Francisco Bay Area • Lead engineer to build out core private capital marketplace for financial investors to meet startup companies for deal sourcing, deal flow, and closing processes. • Developed website platform for stakeholders across private companies, startups, technology/service providers as well as advisors, analysts, and academics focused on emerging growth companies. • Enabled the Java toolkit as company practice to build out the website’s search functionality. • Responsibilities included… Show more • Lead engineer to build out core private capital marketplace for financial investors to meet startup companies for deal sourcing, deal flow, and closing processes. • Developed website platform for stakeholders across private companies, startups, technology/service providers as well as advisors, analysts, and academics focused on emerging growth companies. • Enabled the Java toolkit as company practice to build out the website’s search functionality. • Responsibilities included database management, script updating, coding, infrastructure and networking. Show less



ArsDigita

• Technology, Information and Internet

• Senior Developer

  • Jun 2000 - Feb 2002

  San Francisco Bay Area • Lead Engineer developing toolkit system for creating websites, bulletin boards, ticketing system, and various content management modules. • Constructed the eCommerce modules and search functionalities with Oracle Intermedia. • Built system store, manage, and retrieve heterogeneous media data in an integrated fashion with other enterprise information. • Extended reliability, availability, and data management to multimedia content in traditional, Internet, eCommerce, and media-rich… Show more • Lead Engineer developing toolkit system for creating websites, bulletin boards, ticketing system, and various content management modules. • Constructed the eCommerce modules and search functionalities with Oracle Intermedia. • Built system store, manage, and retrieve heterogeneous media data in an integrated fashion with other enterprise information. • Extended reliability, availability, and data management to multimedia content in traditional, Internet, eCommerce, and media-rich applications. • Ported system from TCL to Java as part of the core engineering team; implemented core classes and architecture that are still in use today. Show less