Connor Phillips
Software Engineer
- Role
- Associate Software Engineer at Kohl's
- Location
- Chicago, IL, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Connor Phillips
Backend Software Engineer focused on distributed systems, performance, and architecture. Currently at Kohl\'s building an internal GraphQL platform that serves real-time product and pricing data to 50+ teams.I care about why systems are built the way they are, and pushing back when they shouldn\'t be. Most of my recent work has lived at that layer: designing a Kafka + Redis inventory system to kill redundant API calls, migrating JSON cache records to Protobuf for an 80% size reduction, and cutting a 2.5-hour product data stream down to 25 minutes through reactive workflows. Also converted several REST endpoints to gRPC, which brought response times down 33%.I like understanding legacy systems well enough to know what\'s worth keeping and what\'s just technical debt with seniority.Stack: Kotlin, gRPC, GraphQL, Kafka, Redis, Spring Boot, MongoDB, Protobuf, React
Experience
Associate Software Engineer
Aug 2024 — Present
Education
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science
2020 — 2024
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