Daniel Phang
Senior Software Engineer at Airbnb
Bothell, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Phang is a senior software engineer with 12 years of experience building large-scale backend systems and data pipelines for high‑volume e-commerce and SaaS platforms. He has launched major programs at Amazon—like Prime Wardrobe across multiple countries and Digital Software & Video Games to 200+ countries—and later focused on performance, reliability, and monitoring for SharePoint Online at Microsoft before joining Airbnb. Deeply versed in ordering, payments, and accounting systems, he also optimizes data warehouses and migrates legacy backends to plugin-based architectures. An active open-source contributor, he improved core Serverless Next.js Lambda@Edge routing and CI e2e testing to make Next.js deployments on AWS more robust. Based in Bothell, WA, he balances production-grade engineering with side projects in Django, Next.js, and Flutter, reflecting a taste for end-to-end systems design and cross-stack curiosity.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Computer Science, 3.96, Master of Science, Computer Science, 3.96 at Lehigh University
English, French, Chinese, Malay
Github Skills (14)
aws-lambda10
javascript10
nodejs10
nextjs10
aws-cloudfront10
cicd9
devops9
aws-s39
typescripts8
serverless8
typescript8
typescript-types8
api-gateway8
aws8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
serverless-nextjs/serverless-next.js
Aug 2020 - Apr 2022
⚡ Deploy your Next.js apps on AWS Lambda@Edge via Serverless Components
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:535 releases, 233 reviews, 855 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Daniel implemented core functionality related to Lambda@Edge by adding support for trailing slash and non-trailing slash redirects. They fixed the reading of the `next.config.js` file during the build process when it exported a function, addressed routing issues with base paths, and rendered Next.js 500 and 404 pages correctly. Additionally, they improved S3 interactions for handling static assets and contributed to the CI workflow by integrating e2e tests.
awslambdanextjsserverlessserverless-framework
dphang/roku-lib
Jul 2013 - Feb 2020
Some useful Roku utilities
Contributions:120 commits, 2 pushes, 2 issues in 6 years 8 months
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