Robert Philipps

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New York City, New York, United States11 yrs 7 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Led high-impact engineering teams at Google.
Expert in Privacy, Trust, Safety & Security.
Developed advanced moderation systems at Amazon.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Software Engineering expert in E-commerce and Privacy-focused systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical LeadershipTeam LeadershipSoftware EngineeringPrivacyData PrivacyData Analysis

Other Skills

Regulatory ComplianceData ProtectionModeration SystemsDevOpsKafkaCassandraMachine LearningMicroservicesUser Centered DesignReactJavaProject ManagementProgram Management

About

Technical Leader with a passion for solving complex large scale problems with compassion and team work. Experienced with leading high impact projects & engineering teams, mentoring, organising engineering processes and working on some of the worlds biggest distributed systems. Special domain expertise in Privacy, Trust, Safety & Security. Follow me for content around Software Engineering & Big Tech.

Experience

Google

2 roles

Tech Lead Manager

Promoted

May 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 10 mos

Privacy & Regulatory Compliance
Co-Lead for an area of 20+ software engineers, UX, product managers, program managers.
Technical Lead and Engineering Manager of 7+ software engineers.

PrivacyRegulatory ComplianceTeam LeadershipTechnical Leadership

Software Engineer

Dec 2020 – Apr 2023 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Software Engineer in Googles privacy and data protection office that gives all of Google's billions of users more transparency, choice and control over their privacy and the data they share with Google.

PrivacyData ProtectionSoftware Engineering

Amazon

Software Engineer

Apr 2019 – Oct 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos · Berlin, Germany

Software Development Engineer in the moderation teams of Amazons trust org.
Worked on manual and automatic moderation systems to make sure Amazon customers world wide have a safe & secure experience.
➜ Lead data privacy project for moderation teams
➜ Interim Tech Lead: Managed sprint process, distributed tasks, reviewed designs, onboarded >10 people
➜ Owned DevOps domain for moderation teams and reported to senior leadership
➜ Drove migration for big upgrade of teams internal S2S authentication.
➜ Designed and co-implemented audit flow to extract and validate automatic and manual moderation decisions.

Data PrivacyModeration SystemsDevOpsSoftware Engineering

Ebay

2 roles

Software Engineer

Oct 2016 – Mar 2019 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Brandenburg, Germany

Software Engineer in the Trust & Safety team of ebay-kleinanzeigen.de, Germany’s biggest classifieds proposition:
➜ Built a policy violation detection service with Kafka & Cassandra that aggregates millions of listings per day, and analyzes them with help of ThreatMetrix with over 96% precision.
➜ Improved machine learning to reduce manual fraud screening volume in distinct categories by 50% with constant KPIs.
➜ Led the local security guild as eCG InfoSec security champion. Started bug bounty process, organized pen testing.

KafkaCassandraMachine LearningSoftware EngineeringData Analysis

Undergraduate Trainee Engineer

Dec 2015 – Sep 2016 · 9 mos · Brandenburg, Germany

➜ Built category suggestions service for listing titles with Solr with 91% precision and an listing conversion increase of 1.5%.
➜ Created importer for OpenImmo standard to provide API for large scale imports of listings.

Sopra steria consulting

Undergraduate Trainee Engineer

Sep 2014 – Nov 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos · Berlin, Germany

➜ Implemented generic RESTful API for JBoss with Spring. Later used as template for new APIs.
➜ Developed internal tool checking for missing or unused translations in code base.
➜ Created and updated UIs with Ext JS.

Freie universität berlin

Student Research Assistant

Sep 2013 – Apr 2014 · 7 mos · Berlin, Germany

➜ Participated in research regarding 'HCC for Children' & 'Improving website accessibility for children'.
➜ Co-authored paper 'The procedure of the development of a target audience-centered interaction design - risks and opportunities' [org. title in German], published in Gender-UseIT 2014 #GUI2014).

Yourpainting

Project Management Intern

Feb 2013 – Apr 2013 · 2 mos · Berlin, Germany

➜ Coordinated web development and optimized processes.
➜ Led the website redesign process. Introduced UX standards such as paper prototyping, user testing, personas.