Phillip Roman - Data Science Graduate Student

Phillip Roman

Data Science Graduate Student

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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Phillip Roman is a data science graduate student and former U.S. Army satellite communications operator with eight years of hands-on experience maintaining mission-critical national infrastructure. He spent over seven years at the FAA managing and upgrading National Airspace System hardware across remote and high-density environments, developing deep expertise in fault isolation, signal-flow diagnostics, and cross-functional project leadership. Now pursuing an MS in Data Science at Drexel, he is translating operational reliability and logistical problem-solving into reproducible MLOps pipelines, data engineering, and automation. An active contributor to open-source Java tooling, he improved broadcast efficiency and configurability in a widely used Java-WebSocket server, showing practical backend impact. Phillip combines disciplined, field-proven resilience with a growing toolkit in Python, SQL, DVC, and CI-driven deployments, making him a strong candidate for short-term co-ops in MLOps or data engineering. He also brings an uncommon blend of austere-environment adaptability and formal business training from Harvard Business School Online.

8 years of coding experience

Master of Science - MS Data Science, Master of Science - MS Data Science at Drexel University

CORe: Credential of Readiness, CORe: Credential of Readiness at Harvard Business School Online

Bachelor's Degree Aviation/Airway Management and Operations, Bachelor's Degree Aviation/Airway Management and Operations at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Post-Baccalaureate Student Computer Science & Mathematic, Post-Baccalaureate Student Computer Science & Mathematic at University of Central Florida

Study Abroad Summer International Marketing, Study Abroad Summer International Marketing at Florence University of the Arts

Associate's Degree General Studies (Mathematics focus), Associate's Degree General Studies (Mathematics focus) at Florida SouthWestern State College

Military Occupational Specialty (25S): Satellite Communications Systems Operator-Maintainer Electronic Communications and Network Engineering, Military Occupational Specialty (25S): Satellite Communications Systems Operator-Maintainer Electronic Communications and Network Engineering at US Army Signal School (Fort Gordon)

English, Spanish

Github Skills (10)

javas10

websocket10

websockets-client10

websocket-client10

server10

client-websocket10

networking10

java10

server-side10

concurrency9

Programming languages (12)

TypeScriptJavaC++ShellCGAPGoLua

Github contributions (5)

TooTallNate/Java-WebSocket

Apr 2018 - Jul 2022

A barebones WebSocket client and server implementation written in 100% Java.

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:20 reviews, 23 commits, 32 PRs in 4 years 2 months

Contributions summary:Phillip primarily contributed to the WebSocket server implementation. Their work included adding and documenting methods for broadcasting data using ByteBuffers, optimizing the existing broadcast methods, and removing duplicate code. They also made changes to allow users to configure the maximum number of pending connections, which included adding methods and an attribute for this functionality. Further, they removed unused and deprecated imports, and replaced deprecated Integer constructor usages.

javawebsocket-client

PhilipRoman/hexproc

Aug 2019 - Mar 2024

Hexadecimal preprocessor for generating binary files

Contributions:5 releases, 4 PRs, 95 pushes in 4 years 8 months

binary-filespreprocessor

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