Phillip Cutter
Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolPhillip Cutter is a software development engineer at AWS and a third-year Computer Science student at UC Irvine with a 3.9 GPA and over a decade of practical engineering experience. He has shipped production services and prototypes on AWS Lambda, Glue, S3, Athena and IAM, building backend systems in Java and Python and complementary AWS console UIs. Phillip co-founded multiple startups and led full-stack development, client-facing work, and cloud infrastructure using Docker and DigitalOcean, demonstrating both product instincts and operational ownership. His projects include a notable open-source exploration of lossless compression in Go that was featured on Hacker News, showing an appetite for deep technical challenges beyond day-to-day work. Comfortable moving from prototyping to scalable, tested systems, he brings strong collaboration skills from cross-functional teams and direct client engagement. Based in Seattle, he combines entrepreneurial curiosity with hands-on cloud engineering at scale.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Lindbergh Senior High SchoolUniversity of California, Irvine
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Github Skills (51)
information-theory10
algorithms9
jekyll9
command-line-tool9
compression9
documentation8
react8
wasp8
kite8
command-line8
jekyll-theme8
administration8
compression-algorithm8
type-safety8
credit8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
go-compression/raisin
Jul 2020 - Sep 2020
A simple lightweight set of implementations and bindings for compression algorithms written in Go.
Contributions:154 commits, 2 PRs, 206 pushes in 2 months
compression-algorithmgocompression-algorithmscompressioninformation-theory
mrfleap/turbo
Aug 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:5 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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